Thanks for the memory

Several years ago my mother-in-law had a small dedicated PC to play her English lessons on. It was eventually scrapped and came to me to salvage what I could from it. I installed Linux on it and started to use it to play music in my office. It's rather under powered but it did work. I then inherited two more powerful systems from my sister-in-law's partner. I bought some RAM to upgrade everything but the small form factor system refused to play ball. At the end of last year I went to England and visited a friend, and I took all the modern RAM I had with me to give him what I could. While we swapped RAM around there was some spare, and I noticed it matched perfectly the spare unused RAM I had, creating a matched pair. When I came back I put the matched pair into the small computer and the pictured RAM here is the one that was left over.

On paper this module is exactly the same as either of the pair I have, but the system refuses to boot with a pair from different vendors - which I've not seen in a long while...! Any how I managed to double up the RAM in this small computer, and after a rearrangement of boxes is now my main music player in my office - and it's now getting more use than when it was new!

I now have this 2 Gigabytes DDR3 SODIMM free looking for a good home. Every computer I have already has the maximum RAM that the motherboard permits installed in it, so I've no use for it at the moment. My very first computer only had 64 Kilobytes of RAM, my first PC had 32 then 128 Megabytes and my second PC had 1 Gigabyte then 2 Gigabytes, and my best home system has 32 Gigabytes... So 2 Gb seems rather small now, even though in the past it was vast!

So this is now pretty tiny, though once it was big and impressive - sort of HARD luck for this module...