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#1 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 - 19:10 Ram — #1

Last week i found an old PC lying off the road...managed to remove drives, Graphic Card and Ram.

Sticks were 256 Mo each (3 of them) PC 133.

Was playing with one of the Sawtooth, and noticed was only 320 Mo, so i removed the sticks and put back the new ones.

Only two of them were properly recognized, but anyway the G4 is 704 Mo now.

Not bad at all

#2 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 - 19:40 Ram — #2

Can't never have too much RAM

#3 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 - 19:56 Ram — #3

I know that in french they talk about "Mo" (mega-octet), but in english we normally call them "Mb" (mega-byte).

In english, eight bits are called a "byte", not an "octet" (although the french version is more logical to me

#4 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 - 22:26 Ram — #4

Well yes, octet is more logical. But since France is the home of the universal decimal system, I would like l'Academie Francaise to insist that a 10-bit dataword is the norm, so the common byte should be a ".8"

#5 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 - 23:03 Ram — #5

Got two sticks of 256 MB PC100/133 in my P3 box. I have lots of assorted SD and DDR ram too. I need to test some, have some other boxes to fully liberate.

#6 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 - 23:05 Ram — #6

Free ram is always a nice surprise. ;D

I too have a box of assorted ram sticks. Some date back to before time itself it seems. |)

#7 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 - 23:08 Ram — #7

You can never find enough DDR2 though for a reasonable price. I'm waiting till it reaches "they're giving that stuff away" - RAM life cycles are rare as hen's teeth, cheap enough for third world children, expensive and dwindling, to raining out of the sky because it's been obsoleted several generations, to rare as hen's teeth.

C'mon, where's the reasonably priced DDR2 sitting in some warehouse?

#8 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 - 00:47 Ram — #8

I bid $25 on 6 x 128MB FPM 5V (PCI Powermac RAM) today thinking nobody would want it, went for $90. You can never have too much RAM even if it is obsolete. I could use some 2GB DDR2 DIMMs too. DDR1 is still kind of pricey so don't expect DDR2 to get super cheap anytime soon.

Seems like all the obsolete cheap RAM on ebay that is sold as NEW comes from China, never had an issue with it (been buying PC100 256MB low density SODIMM for like $4 a piece shipped lately. 512MB PC133 DIMMs are kind of cheap now as well if you want to max out that G4 Tower.

#9 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 - 08:16 Ram — #9

I know that in french they talk about "Mo" (mega-octet), but in english we normally call them "Mb" (mega-byte)

In France, the word byte has a sexual connotation, this is probably why is seldom used in common language...

#10 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 - 16:11 Ram — #10

But I seriously doubt that many around here know what "Mo" means.

I only found out while looking at the french on a box of floppies! (It said "1.44 MO".) I also learn french.