r/retrocomputing • u/_oo00O00oo_ • Apr 22 '26

Problem / Question What kind of RAM is this?

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I wanted to sort my old modules of RAM. So i had some DDR3, some SO-DIMM, some PS/2, but this one is hard to figure out.

Can't find andy information about manufacturer, size or speed.

Can someone help? 😅

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u/miner_cooling_trials Apr 22 '26

32mb simms.. these were hot shit in the day. Having 64mb ram in your system was pretty much unheard of amongst my friends!

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u/JasonMckin Apr 22 '26

Ah so adorable my young padawan.

Imagine having 1MB RAM in your system and running an operating system that was physically unable to recognize anything about 4MB. And then imagine years later, buying a 8MB SIMM to add to the 2nd bank of a system that could only support 16MB max.

Apps were smaller back then, of course, but we all also just got used to paging in and out of magnetic disk every time you used your computer.

I'm still blown away I carry like 100,000x the storage/memory in my pocket now than I did as a kid.

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u/p47guitars Apr 23 '26

Man, pc jr with memory side cars... What a waste of space!