RE: Micron 40th Anniversary

genebren — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 04:33:31 GMT

Wow! This brings back memories (pun intended). I remember buy memories in sticks much smaller that 1M, in handshake deals in a pizza parlor as I needed more and more memory to run my son's newest computer games (286/386 days). The prices seemed even higher for these smaller memory devices than we pay now for sizes that were incomprehensible back then. I remember the first time I bought a computer with multiple megs of memory and thinking what will I do with all this memory?

Gene

RE: Micron 40th Anniversary

Gough Lui — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:34:14 GMT

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