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That's right.. 72pin EDO SIMM's

I wonder if anyone needs to upgrade an old system... I stumbled on a bunch of old socket 7 stuff (and super 7) while moving... Stuff like an Asus P55T2P4 + K6-2+ (http://www.tomshardware.com/2000/07/25/oldie_tuning/)

This board did 83MHz .. back in the day (which was 1996 for me) running a P166MMX at 208MHz stable with 32MB RAM when everyone had 8!

Anyway, long story short,my P55T2P4 is maxed out at 128MB anyway already so if anyone needs some old fast ram for an old system.. here's an early Christmas present

166mhz? 128mb? Man that's a supercomputer! What are you EVER going to do with all those megabytes and megahertz? (sadly, we'll be making these same sarcastic jokes about Core Duos about ten years from now.)

No matter how powerful we make computers, by adding memory, storage, speed, bandwidth, or the like, users will *always* find ways to bring the system to its knees with massive loads. This is one reason that Moore's Law doesn't directly translate into the "speed" of the whole system but will still hold physically for at least the next two, maybe three depending on when quantum or protein/nano-based computing are finally operational, deacades.

christopher_wolf wrote:for at least the next two, maybe three depending on when quantum or protein/nano-based computing are finally operational, deacades.

I never knew the word "decade" had two A's in it...

Back to subject though, the point you make is definitely true. Every few years I have to buy a new computer so I can get the latest rendition of that f**king dancing paperclip in Office or the latest web advertisement with all the multimedia crapola. While most of us, myself included, benefit from the advances in technology (we enjoy videos, internet, online shopping, music, etc), why is it necessary to have a 1ghz CPU to run a word processer and surf the internet these days?

Typos, man; multitasking biophysics papers, microfluidics, and FEA along with the Forums (and the Thinkpad for Dummies Book! ) might have that as a side effect. Plus I don't run a spellchecker on my posts.

No, I don't even know why one would need a 1GHz processor for all that; don't even need that much for some non-trivial compute jobs. It seems that it is alot like a circumlocutory process; people want faster systems so they don't experience choke points and then developers, who would like to take advantage of said faster systems or the extant desire thereof, make fancier and fancier apps with more "features" to make use of cycles they think the user won't notice. All in all, it is like Lewis Carroll noted;

"Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast." --- Red Queen

You collegiate punks and your excuses. With typos like yours, you'll be living in a box and fetching me french fries for a living!

Yeah, I really revisited the whole process yestarday when a friend of mine gave me a hard drive for my ThinkPad 385CD which had been collecting dust and we installed Windows 3.1 (the upgraded to 95 after deciding the drivers were too much work in 3.1) and got sub-30 second bootup times with all the drivers and Office 4.2 installed. This is compared to the 2 minutes from after POST to desktop with XP on my TP600.

mmmkay wrote:That's right.. 72pin EDO SIMM's

Pshaw! I think I still have some 30 pin Fast-Page Mode SIMM modules with pins in my desk at work. Don't know why I still am hanging on the them...

Anyway, can you identify the manufacturer of the chips on the modules? Just professional curiosity....

I'll check them tomorrow.. I'm lying in bed typing this on my R40

I too have some 30 pin SIMMs, I generally use them as keychain toys.

I was tempted to get the latest and greatest Macbook or Macbook Pro, but I figured, I probably wouldn't *neeeed* it since I already have a desktop "Mac" powered by a Pentium D So ended up with a $225 R40.

Now I just need to find a P4-m processor so it can clock down to 1.2GHz on battery.



The only reason to get a faster laptop is to play games, which I wouldn't on a laptop anyway. Maybe occaisionally, but a lot of old games will run on the R40 and are sufficiently fun

mmmkay wrote:The only reason to get a faster laptop is to play games, which I wouldn't on a laptop anyway.

Absent the hyperbole, if my old 600X could run AutoCAD 2006 I'd probably still be using it as my daily driver instead of my T41P or T60P.

I've got hundreds of clients happily running PIII systems as their main computers, running MS Office, surfing the WWW, reading and composing emails, even building web pages.

The "average" computer user doesn't need a bleeding edge computer and most of the time wouldn't even notice if their "ancient" PII or PIII based system was swapped for the latest and greatest Core Duo behemoth.

James

mmmkay wrote:I too have some 30 pin SIMMs, I generally use them as keychain toys.

Yeah, they already have a hole drilled in them on the corner, don't they? Good use for those 256KB and 1MB sticks! Although the ones I have you wouldn't want to put into your pockets....

JHEM wrote: Absent the hyperbole, if my old 600X could run AutoCAD 2006 I'd probably still be using it as my daily driver instead of my T41P or T60P.

Now that would be sweet, wouldn't it?

Siemens makes the chips on the first module..

There's a sticker on it

MGV G3208326E K98-0332
32MB 8X32 60NS EDO
Warranty void if removed

hehe

The other module has chips made by TI :\

Slightly different board, slightly different sticker

MGV G3208326E K98-0296
32MB 8X32 60NS EDO
Warranty void if removed