Today only EDO Memory 72pin SIMM Cheap!

[Antiriad]

Now...came across this today - what type of 72 pin Ram does the Amiga take? Is it EDO?

If so go here as theyre selling the following at dirt cheap prices

32Mb EDO Memory 72pin SIMM £9.40
64Mb EDO Memory 72pin SIMM £11.16

If someone can confirm this is the right memory, methinks i might stock up!

[blackcornflake]

Yup.

Buy, buy, buy!

[Bloodwych]

Cheap, but check out e-bay first. I got 4x32MB simms (128MB) for £15 or something stupid, $17 inc P&P, about a year ago.

Old PC hardware is dirt cheap.

[Akira]

I think some expansions do NOT take EDO. I think mine doesn't. (takes 40 to 70ns SIMMs. Currently looking for a 128MB one)

[Mozzy]

read about this a while ago.. where can i get the converter that converts amiga to pc standard mem? i have lots of old simms lying around that i could put to use

[ant512]

Old PCs (original Pentium era) work with SIMMs. Usually, you'd need to upgrade in pairs, so you'd fit two identical SIMMs (16MB each, for example) and get the expected memory boost (32MB).

Modern PCs use either DIMMs (SDRAM), RamBus or DDR memory. These are all incompatible with each other and completely incompatible with SIMMs. It's rather like IDE and SCSI - completely different interfaces to achieve the same thing.

There are no memory type to memory type convertors.

[Mozzy]

so how do i plug a 72 pin simm in to my amiga?

[ant512]

If it is an A1200, you buy a bare RAM board and fit it into the socket on that (usually 8MB maximum) or you buy an accelerator (up to 128MB in a single SIMM for the Blizzard 1230-IV). The RAM board or accelerator fits into the 1200's trapdoor slot.

If it is a "big box" Amiga, such as the 3000 or 4000, you buy an accelerator compatible with SIMMs such as a Cyberstorm or Apollo 4040 - early boards used ZIPs and other odd memory types.

If it is an A600, you buy a Viper 030 accelerator, install the SIMM and then clip the accelerator over the existing 68000 CPU.

Otherwise, you don't fit the memory.

Note that none of these expansion optionsconverts memory from one type to another - they all have dedicated sockets and logic for SIMM-type memory.

[Mozzy]

and for a 600?

[woody57]

...The designed for A600 trapdoor fitting ...all singing .....all dancing ..... 500k { did anyone bother? } or 1mb { i,ve got one in mine} memorey expansion boards....
The falcon seemed like a good idea but without aga graphics I don,t recalll many finding its expense worth it , not when an second hand a1200 3.0 rom model with a new 1230 viper with 4mb with aga was cheaper ! and considering atapi mounted cheap cd roms were around the a600,s capabilities were for most quite disapointing , some { like me ! liked its small compact size , it may have been underdeveloped but for the "Runt" in amiga,s litter it still performed better than stock pc,s in colledge IT department,s }