> On Sep 5, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Josh Dersch <dersc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > At the LCM, I used an Apple II to test out the Alto's memory -- the Alto II > XM uses 4116 RAM chips. I swapped in a row at a time and wrote a little > BASIC program to test for obvious errors. This was time-consuming, but > eliminated the obviously bad chips, which helped immensely.
Oh, that's so simple and clever! Are these 16k chips? I don't have an Apple II, but I wonder if I could use the same trick and plug them in my HP 85 for which I just managed to burn the service ROM, which has a memory test built in. Marc
