Memory for Quadra 700

[pee-air]

I want to max out the RAM in my Quadra 700. I have already maxed out the VRAM. What I need is a cheap source for 4 16MB 30-pin non-parity SIMMs. Anyone have any suggestions?

I have tried Nexcomp, but at $24.95 per SIMM, that's going to cost me over $100 with shipping to get 64MB of RAM in an obsolete old Quadra 700. No thanks. There's gotta be something a little more realistic.

 

[LCGuy]

Good luck...16MB 30 pin SIMMs are as rare as hens teeth...unless you're very lucky, it will be very hard for you to find 'em cheap.

 

[bluekatt]

i tmight be cheaper to buy up old quads and strip their ram if i hear it like that

and you wil get spare parts

 

[equill]

What you are looking for is always on sale here. The price has only recently increased from USD25 for 4x16MB 30-pin 60ns.

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[pee-air]

What you are looking for is always on sale here. The price has only recently increased from USD25 for 4x16MB 30-pin 60ns.
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Much obliged.

 

[Unknown_K]

i tmight be cheaper to buy up old quads and strip their ram if i hear it like that and you wil get spare parts

Not that many of the old quadras had 16MB SIMMs to begin with.

 

[pee-air]

There was a guy selling a Quadra 950 with 256MB of RAM about two years ago. I had pondered purchasing it, but decided to pass. Looking back, I should have grabbed it, as he only wanted $20 for it.

 

[Maccess]

Dang, you should've. that would have upped the RAM on 4 Quadra 700s. The Q950 can get by with 64MB from 16x4Mb SIMMs.

 

[Quadraman]

I stripped the memory for my 700 out of a IIci I found out for trash. The previous owner of the IIci upgraded the RAM, so my 700 is at maximum capacity now.

 

[equill]

There was a guy selling a Quadra 950 with 256MB of RAM about two years ago. I had pondered purchasing it, but decided to pass. Looking back, I should have grabbed it, as he only wanted $20 for it.

Things that might have been ... If the SIMMs were more-or-less coæval with the Quadra, you might have got your paws on 16 of those giant 32-chip cards. Drool. I thought I was Christmas when I was able to buy five such SIMMs from Gary-W to augment the frustrating three only that I already had.

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[Temetka]

I have a bag full of 8MB (maybe some 16MB) SIMM's that I have no use for.

I have a few 32MB SIMMS but I am keeping those.

Let me check and see if some of them will work in a Q700.

 

[Unknown_K]

Q700 takes 30 pin SIMMs, not 72 pin.

 

[Blessed Cheesemaker]

There was a guy selling a Quadra 950 with 256MB of RAM about two years ago. I had pondered purchasing it, but decided to pass. Looking back, I should have grabbed it, as he only wanted $20 for it.

I gotta tell ya', I've kicked my butt in hindsight with a couple of auctions and sales...with the cheap prices, it is usually worth paying shipping, just to see what you get.

 

[Unknown_K]

If I grabbed everything that was free/cheap I would need a warehouse to hold it all. Sometimes you have to stick with getting what you need and then kick yourself later when you decide you want something that you could have had cheap years ago but is pricey now.

 

[Bunsen]

If I grabbed everything that was free/cheap I would need a warehouse to hold it all.

/me looks guiltily around the warehouse he now lives in and the piles of Macs between here and the door.

 

[equill]

Bunsen: If I haven't remembered by the end of this week, remind me to send you the three hex. nylon standoffs for the IIcx PowerCache adapter that I have just found.

de

 

[Temetka]

Q700 takes 30 pin SIMMs, not 72 pin.

D'oh!

/slaps self.