FS: 128MB piece of crap SIMM

[murple]

Got one of these for my Blizzard accelerator. In spite of the seller's insistence that it'll fit if you wrap a bunch of rubber bands around it and contort your Amiga in various ways, as far as I can tell the only ways to make it fit is with a hammer or by ripping out the CPU.

Should work in other things that take 128MB 72 pin SIMMs. You're welcome to try it on a Blizzard, but if it trashes your computer... I told you not to do it.

Cost me 19 euros plus a few dollars shipping, which is a rip off. Similar if not identical one is being sold here for an absolutely insane 78 euros.

I'm tempted to make it into a keychain, but I don't need a keychain. I'm also tempted to smash it with a hammer while shouting curses at the ebay sellers name. Or... you can buy it for $15 if you're in the US, or $20 if you're in another country. Shipping is included in both prices.

[amazing]

im using the same simm's for over 2 years now on my blizzard
from the same guy and never had any problems with it

[ddniUK]

IIRC you cant use this SIMM in a desktop A1200 without lifting the A1200 a few millimeters and leaving the trapdoor cover off....

[amazing]

yeah u have to leave the trapdoor away and fit small rubber strips under the case

[murple]

Uhh, no. It won't go in the accelerator when the accelerator isn't even in the Amiga. The CPU is in the way.

I don't want it. If you do, let me know in the next day or two, otherwise I will put it to bad use.

[hardlink]

murple wrote:

>>> Should work in other things that take 128MB 72 pin SIMMs.
Anybody know if these work in Apollo 060 accelerators for the 1200?


>>> Cost me 19 euros plus a few dollars shipping,
That may be the problem right there - aren't euros cursed, or I may be reading too many British sites.


>>> I'm tempted to make it into a keychain, but I don't need >>> a keychain. I'm also tempted to smash it with a hammer >>> while shouting curses at the ebay sellers name.
Aw, come on, you're in the Commonwealth! (For those across the pond, Virginia is not a U.S. state) Throw it in the air, blast it with a shotgun, then pick the chips off with a rifle before it hits the ground, like T. Jefferson did!

[murple]

If the Apollo takes 72 pin SIMMs like PCs used to use in the mid 90s, and the socket is at a good angle to fit a double sided SIMM that is a little over an inch wide, it should work. The problem with the Blizzard is that the SIMM socket is placed in a really bad angle and the CPU is in the way of a SIMM this wide.

[ddniUK]

What revision Blizzard do you have? MKIIs can only take 64mb.... Maybe it only fits a MKIII and  MKIV?

[murple]

MKIV, with a 64MB currently. Can take up to 128 (and up to 256 if you get the SCSI kit and max it out with another 128).

[Bazzaq]

I have 2 of them installed in a bppc no problems. In a tower anyway.

[rkauer]

hardlink wrote:

Anybody know if these work in Apollo 060 accelerators for the 1200?

 Unfortunately, no. Apollo boards only take 32Mb SIMM (up to two socket/SIMM on 1260).

[murple]

Wow, an accelerator that takes a 68060 can't take more than 32Mb? That seems strange and underpowered. Weren't 128Mb SIMMs pretty easy to get at the time that '060 accelerators were coming out new?

[cv643d]

Yes but they were so expensive no one could afford them back then.

If you solder another 72-pin socket you can attach 64 MB to the Apollo, but then you would have to run a tower.

[adonay]

Dont buy chips like these "blizzard compatible" if they dont have the word blizzard or amiga in the name they are ten times cheaper .. The seller bought a LOT and sells them at an extreme price. I bought a Lot and sold each stick for about 2£ more than i payed for each . I have also had many different sticks some are not good for the blizzards others are..  

EDIT

Why would anyone need more than 64mb with an amiga anyways ? Asuming they are not running os4 classic or morph ...

[murple]

Why would anyone need more than 64mb with an amiga anyways ?

I have 64MB in my Amiga 1200, running OS3.1, and I've run into a few demos which crap out saying I don't have enough RAM. So... there's some things that need more.