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So, I was thinking about Warcraft on the 486 box, and how I can't run it with both music and effects because the system only has 4M of RAM. Then I remember that I have another 486 motherboard lying around that I took out of a machine which ran Win95. Some quick digging reveals that, indeed, there are 4 larger RAM sticks still in it.
There were already 8 sticks in the computer, of two different sizes. Naturally I removed the smaller ones, assuming they must be somewhere in the <1M range. Computer boots, but freezes while trying to load the OS. Cue a couple of hours fiddling around with different configurations of RAM and CMOS tweaks. Eventually I discover that the 4 smaller sticks are 1M, and work, but gawd knows what the other four that were in there are and they definitely don't (or, RAM liking to work in sets, at least one of them doesn't) work. I'll get one of the computer grognards who will be around here tonight to ID them for me. I can never keep the generations of RAM in order, let alone recognise the size of a stick by eye.
So the little 486 now has a glorious 20M of memory (4x4 + 4x1), which should be enough for anything I want it to do :):)
The tips of my fingers are now very tender from poking nasty metal catches repeatedly. I'm off to play Warcraft for a while.
There were already 8 sticks in the computer, of two different sizes. Naturally I removed the smaller ones, assuming they must be somewhere in the <1M range. Computer boots, but freezes while trying to load the OS. Cue a couple of hours fiddling around with different configurations of RAM and CMOS tweaks. Eventually I discover that the 4 smaller sticks are 1M, and work, but gawd knows what the other four that were in there are and they definitely don't (or, RAM liking to work in sets, at least one of them doesn't) work. I'll get one of the computer grognards who will be around here tonight to ID them for me. I can never keep the generations of RAM in order, let alone recognise the size of a stick by eye.
So the little 486 now has a glorious 20M of memory (4x4 + 4x1), which should be enough for anything I want it to do :):)
The tips of my fingers are now very tender from poking nasty metal catches repeatedly. I'm off to play Warcraft for a while.
