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Micron 40th Anniversary

kevinkeryk

According to this Wikipedia entry here, today is the 40th anniversary for Micron:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micron_Technology

 

So happy birthday to you Micron, you are really a great supplier to work with on several projects over the years!

 

I came across this very old flyer in a magazine I uncovered when I was cleaning up my office a few weeks ago and I wanted to post here to share my nostalgia with the community:

 

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Interesting that although the technology has changed along the way, the need for more memory in a system will always be a timeless requirement from software engineers like myself. image

 

I am guessing by the memory density, this would ad would have been from sometime around 1995.  Any other cool Micron nostalgia available from other community members?

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  • Well, the SIMMs in the image have chip numbering of 9246 meaning Week 46, 1992, if that helps place the ad. I don't think it would have been as late as 1995 as 30-pin SIMMs such as the above generally stopped as soon as the 80486 became popular - they normally used 72-pin SIMMs although there was a SIMMverter that could be used to adapt four (if I recall correctly) 30-pin SIMMs into a 72-pin SIMM.

     

    Speaking of which, there is just one module with Micron chips lurking around my "The SIMMS" page, with a number of other contemporary manufacturers represented. A similar story on my SDRAM collection as well. That being said, my first computer I had access to at home had Micron Technology 30-pin SIMMs (a 386SX 16Mhz). Later Micron's consumer-memory division became Crucial.

     

    - Gough

  • in reply to Gough Lui

    Thank you for the info Dr. Lui!  That is an amazingly well curated collection that you have!  I agree, the memory in the ad in probably earlier than the ad itself since marketing folks are known to use older stock images image

     

    -Kevin

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  • in reply to kevinkeryk

    On a quick inspection, the ad seems to have 1M x 1-bit chips, of which there would be 9 on a single 30-pin parity-enabled SIMM, making each of them 1MB modules. So indeed, you probably are right, since the ad references 4Mb 30-pin SIMMS with parity (i.e. x9) and also 16Mb 72-pin SIMMS with parity (i.e. x36). What a shame, as I used to have more of them lying about, but in our haste to clean-up the house on a move, they were thrown out along with my old 486DX2-66 gear image.

     

    - Gough