[H-GEN] Need: 72pin Parity RAM. (4 or 16Mb)

[Sandra Milne]

best way i've found is to stick 'em in the machine and let the bios tell you.
parity means it sends an extra bit to the machine. if it's set to odd 
parity, it will attach either a 1 or a 0 to the end of every data set to 
make the number of 1s odd (correct me if i'm wrong, i was kinda woozy that 
day at TAFE, having spent most of the night before keeping awake so i could 
see attack of the clones ;-)). similarly for even parity. this is supposed 
to ensure that any corruptions in the data are detected. however if more 
than one bit in the data is corrupted this tends to screw things up.

iirc, fast page is the slower ram, and edo is the faster ram. EDO ram needs 
to be paired, but fast page doesn't. I can't recall the reason for this, 
and it seemed quite silly to me to have to have two of the same stick of 
EDO ram just to get it recognised in teh first place. i tend to ask for 
fast page ram when i'm getting ram for an older system because of that. 
most of my ram lying around is disgustingly mismatched, having been picked 
up hodge podge over the years.

Sandra. (how's that for a dribble)

At 12:41 6/07/2002 +1000, you wrote:

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>G'day all,
>I have a few spare sticks of 72 pin Ram.
>Question
>Is there some way to tell if these are 'Normal' pc sticks or fast page etc
>I guess - 70 means Non Parity?
>and 72 is the pin number
>but there are no consistent groups of numbers or words
>[apart from Korea, japan etc]
>on any of the other sticks
>Tony
>
>Electra Flarefire wrote:
> >
>  I need
> > some Fast Page Mode, True Parity, 72 pin
> > Simms..
> > 60 or 70ns
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