Re: Alpha hardware

[Marc Schlensog <mschlens redhat com>]

On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:58:30 +0100
Michael Kronsteiner <alphamike gmx at> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 18:22 -0700, Dialup Jon Norstog wrote:
> > To the list:
> > 
> > This might be a good time to pick up memory for that Alpha
> > machine.  I just ordered four of these 256meg RAM sticks @ $2.50
> > each.
> > 
> > http://www.starmicro.net/detail.aspx?ID=640 
> 
> would those be fitting for the dec3000 series? (3000/300?) i had
> trouble to find rams which are accepted as all four (two seem to work
> easier...???)

No. The offered memory is reg/buffered SD-RAM, which came way past the
obsolesence of the DEC3000. You need fast page mode SIMMs (pre-decessor
of edo). Not even sure if PS/2 works.

b.r.,

Marc