Comment by ssl-3
2 days ago
I used to use 4 of those with that same branding, Simmverter, on my first Pentium system.
There were 4 variations of the ones I had, for each combination of Tall/Short and Forward/Backward. This way, 4 such adapters could be nestled together in a single set of 4 72-pin sockets without physical interference.
Each one accepted 4 30-pin SIMMs, for a total of 16 per 4-slot system.
It was not amusing trying to get all 16 SIMMs to work correctly at the same time, but it was inexpensive to get spares and I eventually got better at being deterministic about which module to swap out to attempt to improve reliability.
(Things got a lot better when sticks of 72-pin EDO became cheaper.)
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