Re: Alpha hardware

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Marc Schlensog <mschlens redhat com> wrote:

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

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In that case SGI Indy memory *might* work for him. AFAIK Indy uses 50/60nsec FPM modules.