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This bunch of stuff arrived just, need to find time for it all though :roll:

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exxos wrote: Mon Jul 05, 2021 1:24 pm This bunch of stuff arrived just, need to find time for it all though :roll:
There never is enough time. That's why I keep suggesting we look at cloning @exxos and @Icky :)
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Arse biscuits!!


My huge lot of factory sealed DRAM...

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Actually a slightly different package and do not fit the PCBs :pullhair: :headbang:

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exxos wrote: Mon Jul 05, 2021 8:10 pm Actually a slightly different package and do not fit the PCBs :pullhair: :headbang:
Too bad ICs are not like cats...
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exxos wrote: Mon Jul 05, 2021 8:10 pm Actually a slightly different package and do not fit the PCBs :pullhair: :headbang:
FFS. :(

Are they returnable or will the Exxos store now be a new source of slightly fatty DRAM chips?

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Lots of bodge wires to make them work? :lol:
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Looks like footprint for the DRAM was for J-legs?
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Looks to me like they will still kind of fit...
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Badwolf wrote: Tue Jul 06, 2021 10:09 am Are they returnable or will the Exxos store now be a new source of slightly fatty DRAM chips?
I bought them a few years ago from a surplus place in USA somewhere..

I will go hunt later for the J-cup , I mean J-leaded ones.. Will do a new PCB for these other chips, I have like 800 of them so...
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Found 200 new chips in a tube in my drawer :excited:

So..

onwards...

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