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- From: k.a.cooper@lut.ac.uk (Keith Cooper)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: What to do with 256K SIMMS?
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- Date: 13 Aug 92 13:12:47 GMT
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- In article <par-110892162810@mac124.ugadm.nwu.edu> par@nwu.edu (Pete Rodriguez)
- writes:
- >Are 256K SIMMS good for anything? I've got 10 of these things just
- >collecting dust in a closet. Can anyone think of anything to do with these
- >things?
-
- I asked this a while ago and received a few replies
-
- There seems to be no real use for them anymore although someone did suggest
- that a "stacking" socket was available, so that four of them could fit into one
- 1MB simm socket. Unfortunately I've not been able to track down anything here
- in the UK.
-
- The best reply was this Top Ten list (Most humble appologies for losing the
- senders name, but thank you)
-
- TOP 10 list of 'Things To Do With Those Old 256K SIMMS'.
-
- 1. Make them into key chains.
- 2. Donate them to the museum of progress and ask for a receipt for a tax write
- off equal to the highest list price they use to sell for. (That would be
- approximately $240.00 each)
- 3. Mail them to Arthur C. Clarke, mention that now that Dave is gone maybe he
- could give them back to Hal for you.
- 4. Use them to increase the viewing height of your macs monitor. (3/16 of an
- inch at a time.)
- 5. Use one to old hold open the door of your VCR while you clean the heads.
- 6. Make plaster casts of them and try to market them as computer fossils.
- 7. Paint some red and some green and use them as subdivisions or apartment
- complexes in Monopoly.
- 8. Send them to the National Enquirer as proof that you were kidnapped by
- aliens and made to work the silicon mines of Mars, ask $1.2 million for your
- story.
- 9. Glue them to the end of your driveway for speed bumps.
- 10. Put them in an envelope and send them to Apple, along with a note saying "I
- was up late last night doing the yearly budgets for my company and my Macintosh
- just froze up on me. I really need the budgets by the end of the month, would
- you please recover the data out of these memory chips.'
-
- We tried the last one on our local Apple dealer, but were unable to recover any
- useful information...
-