[Duo2400] Re: Alternate RAM

[Larry Friedman]

What was the cost, and who was the source of the 64mb?

~ Larry

On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 02:13  AM, Andrew Butitta wrote:

>> I'll be curious to know what happens from your experiment.
>>
>
> The 64MB SO-DIMM arrived today, and I installed it in my Toughbook.
>
> It works perfectly. I now have 80MB of RAM.
>
> Thus, as I said before, I am willing to donate my previous 32MB 
> SO-DIMM to the
> cause. If anyone feels brave enough to try it in their 2400, I'll ship 
> it to
> them ASAP.
>
> As far as the DIMM working or not, I don't know. The info that Dan 
> sent along
> was great, and makes me wonder... It very well may not work, who 
> knows. But
> I'm pretty sure that if it does work, any EDO SO-DIMM will work.
>
> My reasoning:
>
>  - Hearsay: Upon initiating my search, I found that most places agreed 
> that my
> Panasonic's RAM was proprietary. 64MB SO-DIMMs for my specific model 
> were
> priced anywhere from $80 - $400. SO-DIMMs for the next model up were 
> $35.
>
>  - Documentation: 'Address bits 9 and 10 are swapped' says to me that 
> if one
> module must be 2400-specific, then they *all* must be. However, if 
> having 9
> and 10 swapped is normal, who knows?
>
> That's why we try it, and find out! If it *is* a simple wire-swap job 
> like
> Ivan said, then feel free to use my 32MB module as a learning tool!
>
> Wishing luck,
> Andrew
>
>
>
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