Uses for memory

[Ian W.]

mmmm, old RAM is fun!

in my CISCO (computer networking) class, we've been doing our teacher some favors. mostly, my school has gotten numerous donations of old computers (P2, 200 - 300 Mhz, 2 gig HDs, 72 pin RAM, etc). my teacher takes the HD and CD-ROMs, we get anything else.

so, i'm running an old Pentium Pro (200 Mhz) computer as a second file server in my house (yes second). it also doubles as my "learning linux" computer (for now). the only problem, it's old, and currently has 80 MB of RAM (72-pin). that means just about anything but blackbox doesn't run very well on it. so, i noticed that in the majority of the computers, they have 72-pin RAM. i got three chips today (this was before i remembered that 72-pin must go in pairs, grr), and hopefully some more tomorrow. if no one needs the parts we have a habit of throwing them at each other, which kind of hurts. flying memory is definitly a working hazard .