I have a friend who wants to add more memory to a PS2 model 30. They are
off in the wilds of Oz and acquired this for a good price and would like
to just upgrade it to run some programs they have which do not run on
modern faster systems.
I know this is a snake pit to deal with, and can get more info if
someone can get me some information or point me at references for them
to look at.
What I'm really interested in doing is seeing if just the memory can be
had, and it isn't easy to find Sim modules these days, though I suspect
there are metric tons of them rotting in places forgotten and not
recycled yet.
anyway any info to get started would be useful.
i see there are entire systems on epay, and may suggest just buying one
of them and cannibalizing them for their memory should the asking price
for the individual SIMM parts be ridiculous. i could buy the system, us
the system to be sure the memory does something and send them the
memories alone for reasonable shipping. It would also net them a backup
hard drive which are very scarce in even good times as well.
I'm hoping that the memories were common to other systems and not some
oddball special IBM part. Old advertisements that show up on google
show a number of people making them, but that doesn't mean they can be
found now of course.
thanks
jim
