To interface with such DIMMs, an FPGA or CPLD would help a lot. I
could see there being some applications (such as a digital scope or
fast datalogger) which would still benefit from a deep fast RAM buffer
before dumping to flash at a slower rate.

Sean


On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Jinx <joecolquitt@clear.net.nz> wrote:
>> > On closer inspection I see they're all PC100
>>
>> How hard would it be to interface a memory module with a
>> microcontroller?  Has anyone done this?
>
> Now that I know I'll have a problem shifting them I'd be reasonably
> interested in using these DIMMS as storage for a recording device
> I have an idea for
>
> Mainly because there must be a huge amount of surplus PC100 and
> PC133 that could be had for peanuts. If I could get something up and
> running without too much effort it might be worth it
>
> However, by the time I get around to doing anything there'll probably
> be bin loads of scrap 64GB flash that could be had for peanuts
>
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