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Salvaging Defective DRAM

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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Re:Buying ram on the internet..... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-09 08:30 · Score: -1, Troll

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