Zip ram

[Jeff]

Zips are pretty easy to install if you are lucky enough to find them brand new. After they have been pulled out and re-installed a time or two the pins get weak and bend slightly. Once that happens they can be very tricky to install. I have a zip to simm adapter for my A2386 so that is possible too.

[B00tDisk]

That's for the A3000.  OP's trying to update a bridgeboard.

Here's one:

http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=785918&postcount=4

[pwermonger]

Isn't there a board that allows you to use SIMMs instead of ZIPs?

There is also this:http://www.amigaworld.de/hardware/simm-zip-ram-adapter/

Not sure the availability and it is for the 3000 not bridge board. So not sure if it would work with that. Biggest issue with it would certainly be space next to the 386 with the board and SIMS, as well as layout of the Zip sockets

But, of course, if one could be made for the 3000 one could be made for the 386 bridge board. Just a matter of the time, money and expertise I would think

[Amiga_CDTV]

I have been building my new A3000T-machine, and I was painfully remainded of this thread's topic!

I moved a whole 16 MB of Zip RAM to the new 3000T. Not to mention that I had to insert them TWICE, as there were two chips of a different type amongst the 32 chips (two static column mode TC514402AZ that work with Fast Page Mode chips, but only when they are NOT as the first chip in the 4-chip banks).

All the usual ZIP RAM madness (bent pins that you can't see when you have inserted almost all chips, inserting the chips again and again, straightening the pins one by one) within the bulky case of the 3000T.

The machine is now up and running but I surely wouldn't like to touch any more ZIPs for some time now! :insane: