--- title: C64 Finally Gets The SRAM Corporate Wouldn’t Pay For description: Commodore 64 originally used cheaper DRAM chips instead of SRAM due to cost constraints in 1981. As original DRAM chips age and become unavailable, hobbyist... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/c64-finally-gets-the-sram-corporate-wouldn-t-pay-for-eskejm1h8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: C64 Finally Gets The SRAM Corporate Wouldn’t Pay For | daily.dev og:description: Commodore 64 originally used cheaper DRAM chips instead of SRAM due to cost constraints in 1981. As original DRAM chips age and become unavailable, hobbyist... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/c64-finally-gets-the-sram-corporate-wouldn-t-pay-for-eskejm1h8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EsKejM1h8.png og:image:alt: C64 Finally Gets The SRAM Corporate Wouldn’t Pay For og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # C64 Finally Gets The SRAM Corporate Wouldn’t Pay For **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Commodore 64 originally used cheaper DRAM chips instead of SRAM due to cost constraints in 1981. As original DRAM chips age and become unavailable, hobbyist Fabio Battaglia (hkzlab) created an open-source adapter board that allows modern, easily-available SRAM chips to be used as replacements in C64s with the 250407 motherboard. The project is a practical solution for the retrocomputer community facing the eventual exhaustion of old DRAM stock. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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