Talk:SIPP memory

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is it just me, or does the photo actually show SIMMs? --Ali@gwc.org.uk 07:44, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Apparently it's not just you; a Google image search reveals that SIPPs should look like this Steved424 17:03, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Fixed by Pyksy - thanks! Steved424 15:21, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that.--Eddie 19:07, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Merge to SIMM

"SIPP" seems to be just just un-sourced jargon. This page should be merged to SIMM, which says:

The original memory modules were built upon ceramic and had pins. Later the pins were removed and the modules were built on standard PCB material. When Wang first announced their new creation, they called them SIMMs. It appears to me that the retronym "SIPP" was probably only coined after the pins had been removed in later versions. Some SIPP modules were in fact SIMM modules with pins soldered onto the connectors. Right, I'm guessing that this was done so that older motherboards could get memory upgrades. – Wbm1058 (talk) 19:03, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

And don't get these confused with Single in-line package (SIP) chips, like some usually reliable sources do. Or, if you have a "SIP module", would that be a SIPM? – Wbm1058 (talk) 19:18, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

SIPP was assuredly a standard technical term, sometime in the early 1990s. They were relatively short-lived since SIMMs proved cheaper and more reliable. Alistair1978 (talk) 21:46, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

OK, I'll keep looking for better contemporary sources. One says they were used in some 386sx machines, but doesn't go into any specifics. - Wbm1058 (talk) 23:00, 15 September 2014 (UTC)