Subj : Old Laptop Memory
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Grymmjack
Date : Mon Jul 25 2005 08:03 pm

  Re: Old Laptop Memory
  By: ROB MCCART to ALL on Sat Jul 23 2005 06:19 pm

 > I got this freebie old Laptop the other day..
 > I'd been looking for a cheap medium end unit but
 > this sort of fell in my hands.
 > Just an old Toshiba T1960CT..
 > Not a bad little unit. Very clean and not so much as
 > a scratch on the screen and even came with a fairly new
 > case but it could Really use more memory. It has 8 meg
 > now (4 built in and 4 added) but that's a little 'light'
 > for even Win 95 I think. It has Win 3.11 on it now.
 > 
 > I had a heck of a time finding where the memory plugged
 > into it but I wasn't expecting what I found. Big flat
 > piece of plastic almost the size if a playing card
 > with a bunch of holes in one end. Looks something like
 > a Compact Flash memory card that's all grown up...
 > 
 > Online they called it 88pin JEIDA DRAM  (non-parity, 3.3v)
 > (Not sure if JEIDA is a make or a type)
 > 
 > Anyone have any old blown computers around that takes
 > this same sort of RAM that has a 16 or 32 meg module
 > they may want to let go cheap ?
 > 
run linux, ram problem solved.

of course you shoulduse textmode and not x (if you are ok with that).

otherwise, os2 might be a good choice. windows is going to be a dog on that
thing :)


- grymmjack<grymmz0r@yahoo.com>


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