Tech,
Why ask me? You can google as easily as I can.
My regards
Sorry… just that I was thinking it was not for sale anymore…
Seems I’m wrong http://www.symantec.com/region/br/home_homeoffice/products/backup_recovery/ngb40/sysreq.html
@ OP
Not sure if this is one that would fit, they are 168 pin and a speed of PC100 or PC133 for ~$15.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2000170147%201052307855&name=128MB
Could you post the number of pins it uses and the speed(s) it supports?
The correct card is a 60 ns 144 pin SO DIMM model, which may have been common back when this laptop came out. I’ve found it a little cheaper elsewhere, but this is what I would need:
http://stores.channeladvisor.com/Arch-Memory-Electronics/items/item.aspx?itemid=2566462
The following source is as cheap as I have found the 128 MB module, short of looking on eBay:
http://www.impactcomputers.com/ktt650-128.html
But thanks for the suggestion.
Here is Crucial RAM that fits the specs: http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT16M64S4W7E
Here is the same thing on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/128MB-Sync-PC133-144PIN-Sodimm/dp/B00068UJIY. but it says there is only one left in stock at the time of this posting.
At Amazon it is $27, but with free shipping, at Crucial’s site it is $24, but shipping does cost you something so check to see if it would be cheaper at Amazon after shipping is added.
Great find! Thanks!
For anyone else wondering about “Goback” it was sold by Roxio to Symantec years ago, given one brief update and then consigned to the warehouse of products bought by Symantec and then allowed to die - it is no longer sold. For any that have the last release from Symantec (like me), it still works just great on older single processor systems. It has issues on multiprocessor systems (though I discovered that running on this dual processor system with asymmetric memory the problems go away) it must be considered for the future, to all intents and purposes, a defunct product.
Did anyone mention Ghost 2001?
I think the technology is different.
GoBack is a sector to sector backup/restore tool.
Ghost is a partition/disk/file backup tool.
After taking a second look at this module, I noticed that it is SDRAM while the laptop specs call for EDO RAM. It might work, but in general I think it is not a good idea to mix different memory technologies in the same machine. So I still think I’m stuck with the more expensive memory I located earlier, which does match the EDO requirement.
Thanks anyway.
Hi Tech
I mentioned Ghost 2001 for a couple of reasons.
1/. It’s another product purchased by Symantec and discarded (maybe with good reasons as Windows versions came and went) in favour of Powerquest’s techniques.
2/. After all these years, IMO the executable ‘ghost.exe’ run from a DOS-compatible partiton, bootable floppy or CD, is one of the most brilliant little programs ever made. It’s 99% error-free and so FAST.
Ghost was primarily a cloning tool (disk to disk, partition to partition & sector to sector) which also does compressed images. Later versions were marketed as backup tools.
Having said all that… it’s probably not much use for a laptop with only one hard disk.
It could be useful if you have more partitions (even space for a full partition copy, like I’m luckily have ;))
Yes. First thing I did when I “inherited” my old Compaq 1220 (with “huge” 1.7GB hard disk) was to create a 2nd partition at the end of the disk, large enough for a compressed Ghost image of its Win98SE installation, which I could then copy to another networked PC for safe keeping.
Hi All Famous,
I still use Ghost 2003 occasionally to clone to a Hard Drive or DVD. When I bought it all those years ago I didn’t know Ghost 2001 was better.
My first proper experience was with the Sinclair Spectrum ZX80 (48 KB memory) and when I wrote a complex program with huge logic and some 250 data elements I had to delete the used program lines to make more space for the program to continue. Even so, it was impressive.
Then I bought an Amstrad Luggable with 20 MB of drive apace and 640 KB of RAM and a 6 inch screen.
With PCTools from Central Point Software and SuperCalc the old DOS based spreadsheet, which I still use, it ran superbly.
I still think GoBack (second hand) might be a good solution though it might be cheaper to buy a second hand machine for a few “dollars” rather than spending a similar amount on extra RAM.
My regards