[sdiy] Module format

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Monday 09 May 2005 11:35 pm, Paul Schreiber wrote:
> If I was going to put effort into this, the logical format would be SIM
> memory module. Reasons as follows:
>
> a) it's a specific, world-wide defacto standard
>
> b) sockets are cheap and available world-wide
>
> c) there is no specific "extension" height above the 2 "prong catch holes"
> on the ends, so you can fudge a bit on overall pcb area. I'm not sure if
> there is a de facto spacing connector-to-connector for the angled versions.
>
> d) other companies have products on this form factor, such as:
>
> http://www.systronix.com/tini/tini_simm.htm  (this is larger than I
> imagine, but you get the idea)
>
> http://www.imsys.se/products/modules/snapmodule.htm (another "double-wide"
> size)
>
> I'd use the old (1990s) SIMM size (ahh...the days of spending $1200 for 4MB
> of RAM).

Yeah,  but does Vector or somebody make prototyping boards in this 
format?  :-)