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Post #5 by trag
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Post DateTue, 10 Mar 2015 - 22:36
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/the-i-couldnt-let-it-go-conquest.1452/
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PIctures 1, 2, and 3 are 5V FPM DRAM DIMMs for the early PCI PowerMacintoshes.  Pictures 4 & 7 are VRAM DIMMs as TWF stated, although, perhaps 1 MB DIMMs for the 7500, 8500 and successors and clones.   I'm not certain without doing more work looking up the chips than I want to do.

5 and 6 also look like 5V FPM (or EDO) DRAM.    No idea what capacity.  Picture 2 are 16MB DIMMs (2M X 64 bits).   There was a searchable part number on those.   Plus I was interested because I'm looking for a 32MB version that used those long SOJ chips.  I'm pretty sure those can be soldered onto the empty pads on the PM6500 logic board to provide additional memory.

I do not think any of these are PC66 or later RAM.   While the arrangement of pins is the same, the notch placement is slightly different and all of the non-VRAM appears to have the same notch placement (left, middle, right in the space between the pins).   Notice that the center notch is left justified in all cases.

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