Re: More RAM - a bad trend for m68k debian
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:28:59PM +0100, Christian Brandt wrote:
> Stephen R Marenka schrieb:
>
> >ebay.com is where I bought ram for my macs.
>
> At least _my_ RAM-slots are full with the biggest ZIP-style-ICs
> available for Amiga. Same goes for other m68k-amigas and ataris, most
> have not even SIMM-slots but demand single RAM-ICs and then 4MBit is the
> biggest available option with maybe 16 or 32 sockets, totalling out at
> 16MB with great pain. And I didn't even mention that it is nearly
> impossible to aquire ZIP-style RAM today.
>
> The most uptodate systems maybe have four slots for PS/2-SIMMs but
> rarelly can use more than 128MB - if you can find the special and very
> rare FPM-PS/2-SIMMs at all - the 16MB can be bought from time to time,
> 32MB FPM is very rare and 64MB... I haven't seen them for sale in 15 years.
>
> Many embedded m68k-systems only have one PS/2-slot at all, so you are
> hogged at 16MB.
>
> So upgrading is no real solution.
When I bought my first mac a couple of years ago, the first thing I did was
to upgrade the memory to 128MB, the same amount my Amiga has. At that time,
I asked on the (developers) list who else needed memory, and IIRC we upgraded
all m68k machines to 128MB at that time. How does $9 for 32MB sound, too
expensive? http://www.18004memory.com/category.asp?catid=2
Disclaimer: I don't receive any money from that company, I am just a happy customer.
I haven't seen any m68k machine, that uses ZIP RAM, but that stuff should be
lying around, somebody donated me a couple, but I think they are 1MB only.
If you have a 'decent' m68k machine, doesn't it have an accelerator board, and
doesn't every accelerator board have PS2 memory slots? Or, as the CT60 even DIMM?
I am a little nervous about the ColdFire boards, though, the ones we received
only have 64MB and no easy way of adding more memory.
But in case you don't want to upgrade your hardware, nobody stops you from running
an old release, I should still have slink CDs. If you don't need security
updates, that should be just fine. Of course, you won't be able to run a recent
gnome, but that would not work on a PC with 16MB RAM either.
Christian
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