>At 10:58 PM 8/31/1998 Winston Pike wrote:
>>
>>I have a pair of 72-pin RAM sticks and I need to know what type they are.
>>Each stick has four chips marked "NEC 4218165-80". The only other
>>markings are "Made in Japan" and "HM120" and "MDK 321V-0"
>
>
>Winston:
>
>The chips sound like NEC's 16 Megabit hyper page (implicitly
>EDO) DRAM. The "-80" would imply that the chips are rated at
>80 nanoseconds, which would be incongruous for EDO.
>
>4 chips x 16 Mbits  =  8 MBytes each SIMM.
>
>I presume these are double-sided SIMMs and you've checked
>the part numbers. If these are actually 80 ns RAM, you should
>avoid using them in a Pentium or even a fast 486.
>
>Best way is to plug them into a PC and see what turns up. Or
>check the NEC web page at:    http://www.nec.com
>and search under "Memory".
>
>Regards,
>
>John Chin
>
The main question I had was the type (EDO in this instance). An in-law just
purchased
a computer with 16Meg of EDO and I wanted to know if it would work in her
machine.

thanx...

Winston

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