Anyone knows what's a 32 pin simms ?
Hong Siang Teo
clearly 32 contacts at the edge. Are these compatible with 30 pin simms ? If
not, on what platform are they used ?
Help please. I have four of these, and don't know what to do with them.
Hong Siang.
(PS> I know this is not the correct newsgroup to post this question. But with
1000+ articles per day, this is definitely a widely read newsgroup. I'm just
hoping for a quick help )
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Curt
> In article <472lom$9...@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk>
> h...@doc.ic.ac.uk "Hong Siang Teo" writes:
> > Yes, they are 32 pins simms, as opposed to 30 pin or 72 pin simms. There are
> > clearly 32 contacts at the edge. Are these compatible with 30 pin simms ? If
> > not, on what platform are they used ?
> >
> Yes, I too have seen these. They seemed to have no actual connection to
> the extra pins, and they did work fine in standard 30pin sockets.
> Goodness knows what platform they could be from, especially if the extra
> pins dont go anywhere!
Some "almost standard" PC's use them...my guess was to force buyers to
buy special memory at a premium price. Unisys PC's had 32 pin memory.
One guy told me they wouldn't work in his machine; another guy told me
they will work in most PC's. Maybe the one guy had a funny socket
that wouldn't take the simms, or maybe he was putting them in
backward.
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>Yes, they are 32 pins simms, as opposed to 30 pin or 72 pin simms. There are
>clearly 32 contacts at the edge. Are these compatible with 30 pin simms ? If
>not, on what platform are they used ?
>Help please. I have four of these, and don't know what to do with them.
Do you know where they came from? I know that Compaq for a while was
doing *something* nonstandard with its memory SIMMS, which meant that
non-Compaq memory couldn't be used in Compaqs and vice versa (of
course third-party memory manufacturers soon produced a special line;
what was even more annoying was that Compaq used the same part number
for parity and non-parity memory).
Jeffrey R. Broido
>... I know that Compaq for a while was doing *something* nonstandard
>with its memory SIMMS ...
Yes, and when they did my friend had to pay $80 for a 1Mb SIMM for his
Compaq when the going rate was about $27 for a normal one. That's the
main reason I don't advise buying name brand computers.
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Jeffrey R. Broido "No Statements Flagged
Morristown, NJ in this Assembly."
Brian T. Riley
One thing you can do is have them converted to 30 or 72 pin. There is a company
that advertises this process in the back of either Windows Mag or PC Mag.
Brian T. Riley
Jeff Pitsch
writes:
>>... I know that Compaq for a while was doing *something* nonstandard
>>with its memory SIMMS ...
>
>Yes, and when they did my friend had to pay $80 for a 1Mb SIMM for his
>Compaq when the going rate was about $27 for a normal one. That's the
>main reason I don't advise buying name brand computers.
>_____________________________________________________________
>Jeffrey R. Broido "No Statements Flagged
>Morristown, NJ in this Assembly."
Where are you getting SIMMS for $27 a meg?????
Jeff Pitsch
Steve Austin
: >... I know that Compaq for a while was doing *something* nonstandard
: >with its memory SIMMS ...
: Yes, and when they did my friend had to pay $80 for a 1Mb SIMM for his
: Compaq when the going rate was about $27 for a normal one. That's the
: main reason I don't advise buying name brand computers.
: _____________________________________________________________
: Jeffrey R. Broido "No Statements Flagged
: Morristown, NJ in this Assembly."
32 pins SIMMs were also made to get around a patent 2 of the pins do not
connect to anything.