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Man. That sounds like a fun build.
I consider this kinda like the wild West era of computer building. There wasn't a lot of standardization like there is now and you really have to know how to handle the software because the support wasn't really there.
Finding 2 sticks of ram that both worked AND worked together was a slog of boot/swap/rebooting. It really is just plug and play these days.
That's why I still have RAM pairs from every computer I've ever built in a box in the garage. I'll probably never use them again, but I spent so much money on them, and it took so much research to get the right ones, that I can't bring myself to throw them away.