• Kensington Technology and Kingston Technology 8580 memorydaughtercards

    From Louis Ohland@ohland@charter.net to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Sun Feb 18 21:04:36 2024
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    Ever surfing the net, my electric eye detected a "Kensington Technology KTM-2000/M80" 8580 memory daughtercard. This caught my attention, you
    would expect "Kingston Technology"

    The PCBs for the KTM-1000/M80 and the KTM2000/M80 share the same PCB.
    Dave noted the KTM-1000 only populates half of the memory ICs.

    But if you look at the spacing of the model's title on each card at the
    top of the board, you will see:

    Kensington Technology KTM-2000/M80
    ^

    Kingston Technology KTM-2000/M80
    ^^^

    The only image we have of the KTM-4000/M80 appears to be Kingston
    Technology from the get-go.

    Kingston <<< Big font size!
    Technology Corporation <<< About 1/2 size, tucked in under Kingston

    Maybe... Kensington sold the KTM line to Kingston?
    Kensington fabbed the KTM line for Kingston?

    Kensington is normularily associated with Apple stuff [ADB mice...] and physical security devices [locks, cables...]. Perhaps Kensington
    divested itself from the KTM stuff to focus on Apple? I have yet to find
    any period articles explaining the name shift...
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  • From IBMMuseum@ibmmuseum@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Tue Feb 20 07:39:36 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware

    Ever surfing the net, my electric eye detected a "Kensington Technology KTM-2000/M80" 8580 memory daughtercard. This caught my attention, you
    would expect "Kingston Technology"

    The PCBs for the KTM-1000/M80 and the KTM2000/M80 share the same PCB.
    Dave noted the KTM-1000 only populates half of the memory ICs.

    But if you look at the spacing of the model's title on each card at the
    top of the board, you will see:

    Kensington Technology KTM-2000/M80
    ^

    Kingston Technology KTM-2000/M80
    ^^^

    The only image we have of the KTM-4000/M80 appears to be Kingston
    Technology from the get-go.

    Kingston <<< Big font size!
    Technology Corporation <<< About 1/2 size, tucked in under Kingston

    Maybe... Kensington sold the KTM line to Kingston?
    Kensington fabbed the KTM line for Kingston?

    Kensington is normularily associated with Apple stuff [ADB mice...] and physical security devices [locks, cables...]. Perhaps Kensington
    divested itself from the KTM stuff to focus on Apple? I have yet to find
    any period articles explaining the name shift...

    I think it's a glitch of the Matrix - Free Your Mind (and the rest will follow).
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