I spent a number of hours last night going to all the memory sites I have come across, plus a search for a few more, also researching info about the 64 pin RAM. the one detail I did manage to distill is that the RAM used in the laaserwriter printer runs at too many nanoseconds, i.e., is too slow, to use in the IIfx motherboard. I am forwarding various pages I find that bear on the problem, over to you when I see them. You've doubtless gotten some of those forwards already. one had a simplified diagram in color of what a IIfx mobo looks like, both with the 'balcony' on it and without. a fast visual ID is to look for 6 nubus slots in parallel on one half the board and 8 parallel ram slots oriented 90 degrees to them, on the other half.
another site alerted me to the fact that if the RAM sticks have 9 chips on a stick, that's a "parity" IIfx and a parity motherboard, and sticks of that sort should be kept together and labeled 'parity'. those are even rarer than the regular IIfx ram by an order of magnitude. wish I could be down there to poke around along with you and speed up the sleuthing. I emailed a coupla mac recycler sites about this trailer load, asking them if any of them are interested in stepping and taking the stuff off this guy's hands for a modest price. you would be included as a finder's fee. One place did reply with intrigue. watch for them to be emailing you with questions. mention a modest finder's fee you'd like to be granted for bringing it to light. anything to keep these from vanishing forever from the earth. we gottsa come up with more creative ways to put these old cards to use. maybe we should stop thinking about putting them in their origianl individual cases and instead think of how to put em all in one huge combination piece. I'm picturing rigging up some kinda multiprocessor project using a whole buncha boards working at once, maybe on fractals or SETI or something. maybe LEM could build a group project for SETI for fun and science cosmic history, using every old board we find that we aren't putting in our whole machines. build some kinda huge setup that's part artwork, part real processing power, and make it part of SETI's arsenal. anyone find this notion attractive and challenging? janet trekkie, x-phile and futurist http://community.webtv.net/mensabrains/BADCODE -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
