<div dir="ltr">You guys are right about the 72 pin SIMMS - they are 32 bits instead of 8, so that's a x4 reduction right there without messing with the address line decoding, and so on. They just took 4 8bit and smashed it together, they even have 4 CAS/RAS pairs and parity, which is brilliant. Proof is right here:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/116438233217">https://www.ebay.com/itm/116438233217</a><div>"FutureWare SimmXtender SXT77-F 72-Pin SIMM RAM Memory Expansion Card" - "Convert four 30-pin SIMMs into one 72-pin SIMM"<br><div><br></div><div>Thanks all for bringing it up. I'll take a look over the weekend but I wanna use the time to clean up the github and milestone it.<div><br></div><div>Dan.</div><div><br></div><div>PS: Lemme tell you, netbooting NetBSD with only 4mb of RAM and the swap is over 10mb network as well, things get pretty glacial. SunOS is definitely way more thrifty.</div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 7:56\u202fAM Dave McGuire via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 5/21/25 23:07, Alexander Jacocks via rescue wrote:<br>
> And I\u2019d second the suggestion to skip 30 pin SIMMs and use 72 pin SIMMs <br>
> instead. They are much easier to get in larger sizes. And, I\u2019d bet that <br>
> 72 pin SIMM sockets are easier to get, as well.<br>
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I have a small stock of AMP 822030-3 72-pin SIMM sockets left over <br>
from a previous job, should be about 400 or so.<br>
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-Dave<br>
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ<br>
New Kensington, PA<br>
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