"how's ram shortage going"

zimward

@whitequark makes me think again of selling my laptops ram after i finish uni in the next months, now that its so expensive it could pay my rent for over a month.

✧✦Catherine✦✧

@zimward surreal

Jana

@whitequark Just today I was saying that I have a lot of SO-DIMM RAM, but need proper DIMMs

Eloy.

@whitequark I'm kinda surprised this even works, I thought the length of traces and such matters quite a lot with DRAM

✧✦Catherine✦✧

@eloy it does but only within the same byte group, between byte groups the difference could be large and compensating for it is a big part of DDR training

M0KHR

@whitequark @datenwolf

Once I have had removed all 640kb of RAM off a PC XT clone to check any issues, and re-seated them. Looked very much like this (image source: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/h8t32l/8088_motherboard_from_ibm_xt/)

✧✦Catherine✦✧

@M0KHR @datenwolf yepyep, I think the earliest physical x86 hardware I've personally operated was a sub-ATX 386 and a few 486's besides that. fun toys

Eloy.

@whitequark ah, right, thanks!

stdevel

@whitequark EDO-RAM to DDR5 adapter when? 🥺

Noisytoot

@whitequark the first one says "Abapter"