Are These for Retro Fans? Let's Find Out!

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I have found these old electronic parts in some forgotten electronics junk pile. And even though I can identify the individual parts I still can't know what they are used for together.
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They look like memory SIMMs. What are the ICs that you say you have identified? SRAMs DRAMs maybe?
 
Yes, they are DRAM memory cards. Here's the description of the parts on the left. So the chips are 1 Meg DRAMs. So these are OLD. Recycle them if you can.
Part #: TC514256AJL-80
Part Category: Memory ICs
Manufacturer: Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.
Description: Fast Page DRAM, 256KX4, 80ns, CMOS, PDSO20
 
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phyzguy said:
DRAM memory cards
Yes, I'll correct my post. I work mostly with SRAMs, but memory SIMMs would use DRAMs. Duh! Thanks
 
Thank you guys I really appreciate it.
 
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phyzguy said:
Recycle them if you can.

Actually I would check first with retro fans, some older hardware is hard to find and sought after.

Several months ago I needed a plain vanilla old Pentium for a picture, took me several days to locate one.
 
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The numbers 9020, 9024, 9025, and 9038 are probably a package year and week date code. 9020 = 20th week of 1990.
 
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Borek said:
Actually I would check first with retro fans
Great idea, will do.
Thanks