HELLER%dgatum5p.earn@NSS.CS.UCL.AC.UK (09/06/88)
Date: 5-SEP-1988 19:38:51.09
>From: HELLER AT DGATUM5P
To: @TRANSPUTER,HELLER
Subj: sip-modules
Who can help?
We are currently building our own transputer hardware:
T800 + 1MB DRAM each.
... and the DRAM is the problem! We need SIP-Memory modules
256Kb x 9 with 100ns or
1Mb x 9 with 100ns
Is there anybody in the net, who has access to those modules or who
knows a good adress to get them from?
Thanks a lot, Helmut.andrew@isdg.cs.hull.ac.UK (Andrew Stewart) (09/06/88)
>... and the DRAM is the problem! We need SIP-Memory modules >256Kb x 9 with 100ns or >1Mb x 9 with 100ns I'm afraid the answer is "keep looking" - I've just finished building a board and I found the memory situation hopeless - all the suppliers have quotas to their big customers, and if you don't want 10,000 you just have to wait... and wait... and wait... If you're building a prototype, I suggest you go for 120ns or 150ns memories; if you need the speed, I'm afraid you have problems. Andrew Stewart PS: If anyone knows of a source for 100ns/120ns 1Mbit memories, please tell me as well!
harker@parns.nsc.COM (09/15/88)
A source of 80 ns 256Kb x 9 sims might be some sun users with the new
sun4/110 workstations. It turns out that Sun ships them with 8 Mb of
256K SIMMs. This fills all of the SIMM slots on the CPU board. If a
Sun4/110 user wants to add any more memory they first have to remove 4
Mb of 256K SIMMs. If they buy thier memory from a third party (cheeper
and faster) then they are left with 4 Mb of 256K SIMMs
It might be worth a try
Robert Harker, All around good guy.
NSCIBM: par(harker)
DECnet: cda::harker
UNIX: harker@cda.nsc.com
{sun,decwrl,hplabs}!nsc!cda!harker
PS. your might also just want to just go out an buy sun3/60 memory
it is 1 Mb x 9, 100 ns, $500 per Mb, and it should be avialble anywhere