Salvaging Defective DRAM

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Posted by michael on Sunday March 9, 2003 @06:35AM from the every-part-except-the-squeal dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ever wonder what happens to DRAM that fails quality assurance testing during manufacturing? Turns out a lot of it ends up as 'downgrade' memory and ends up in OEM memory modules. Last resort: use it in an answering machine, where the sampled audio can be very tolerant of bit errors."

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*Long String of Curses* by SatanicPuppy · 2003-03-09 06:40 · Score: 5, Funny

You just explained a lot about my fricking answering machine! I thought that no one ever called! And now I find out it is low grade ram? My god! I may really HAVE a social life!

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1. Re:*Long String of Curses* by Znonymous+Coward · 2003-03-09 07:06 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  The messages come through, they just sound like this...
  
  Hi, this is ___ael. Give me a call at 55_12__. Talk to you latter.
  
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Did I ever wonder? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-09 06:44 · Score: 5, Funny

Ever wonder what happens to DRAM that fails quality assurance testing during manufacturing?
No. I figured they forgot about it.
well by odyrithm · 2003-03-09 07:00 · Score: 4, Funny

I sh*t you not.. they make great keyring fobs! just dont let your gf see it ;)

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I have it by acidrain69 · 2003-03-09 07:07 · Score: 5, Funny

I've been waiting for the computer graveyard market to ramp up. Where does the rest of defective computer systems go?

It's in my closet. All of it. The whole market. I'm waiting for the entire tech market to crash, so I can flood the market.

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Alternate subject by hexdcml · 2003-03-09 07:42 · Score: 4, Funny

Did anyone else read the title as "Salvaging DRM"? Hmmm, for minute there I thought answering machines were DRM protected.

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Re:I figured by ksuMacGyver · 2003-03-09 08:52 · Score: 4, Funny

Arriving in the email!!! Wow what will they think of next? No wonder you have problems with it. Your ink jet probably is set to too low of a resolution to print the circuit, for more help on setting up your printer check out linuxprinting.org

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