[rescue] Question: Interest in $20/Gig RAM for Ultra 1/2/30/60/80/etc...

[Bryan Gurney]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:15:40 -0400, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Bryan Gurney wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:42:15 -0400, Lionel Peterson
>> <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> On eBay there is a HUGE LOT of 128 Meg RAM DIMMs for Ultra
>>> 1/2/30/60/80/etc for sale (280 pieces @ $490 + $40 S/H), and while I
>>> could use some, I CERTAINLY have no use for all that RAM.
>>>
>>> Question: Would anyone here be interested in taking some of this off my
>>> hands if I were to get the entire lot?
>>>
>>> A bank of 8 DIMMs (1 Gig of RAM) would cost me just over $15, and if I
>>> could sell it for, say, $20 for a bank of 8 (or $10 a bank of 4) plus
>>> actual shipping I'd consider buying the lot and breaking it up for
>>> various buyers.
>>>
>>> I'd have 35 1 Gig sets available, and if I can find buyers for about
>>> half those sets I'd be happy to do it.
>>
>> I might be interested; my U60 is at 768 MB with 8 sticks, and my disused
>> U2 has 640 MB in 12 sticks IIRC.  It would be rather nice to pump up the
>> U60 to 1792 MB.
>
> How many sockets does a U60 have?  I have a U60, but I haven't popped it
> open yet.  I probably wouldn't mind filling its sockets.
>

It has 16, just like the U2.  And of course, install in sets of four.