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What Can You Do with Old RAM?

Posted by Cliff on from the dips-for-chips dept.

sruchris asks: "Over the past 10 years or so, as friends and relatives buy new computers, I end up with the spare parts that they don't want. I've now have quite the collection of unused PC100 and PC133 SDRAM. Does anyone have any practical or creative uses for spare SDRAM other than giving it away? I have various sizes from 32MB to 256MB. My first thought was a giant RAM drive. Does anyone know of an adapter that would take, lets say, 10 sticks of SDRAM and give me an IDE or USB connector? I know people have made jewelery, fishtanks, litterboxes and furniture out of old computers parts, but what can we do that's pratical with a box full of old RAM?"

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  1. Give them to me (or sell them) by oldosadmin · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'd say to give them to someone who might use them (like me), or to sell them on ebay. Some people still use that type of ram.

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  2. Any toxins in em? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know but right know I am in the process of installing as many old wiped drives, pci cards and ram into one box as I can. I'm going to try to jam a few motherboards in there right before I seal it up. Then I am going to take it to the recycling center and let them deal with it. For the $8 charge per box, they are going to get about 8 drives, 20 sticks of ram (most of it taped inside of the case), 8 pci cards, some floppy and cd drives, and hopefully a couple of extra motherboards. It's going to be wall to wall components in there.

  3. freecycle by dr_leviathan · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.freecycle.org/ -- basically a local free exchange of stuff that you would otherwise throw away

    I found that via an old entry on http://www.makezine.org/blog/.

    There have times where I wished I had some older memory to fill out an old liquidated machine I was resurrecting, but I've always had spares of the smaller sized memory cards while wishing I had the larger capacity cards. That is and abundance of 128 MB cards that I would like to trade ALL for just one 256 MB card. The low end stuff of any generation of memory cards is basically useless in my experience.

    Anybody want some 128 MB PC100 cards?

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  4. Re:Don't forget! by karnal · · Score: 4, Funny

    My parents told me the same thing about my pee-pee.

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