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- From: mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca (Reg Martin)
- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
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- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 15:56:10 GMT
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- Roland Larsson (LARSSON@brivs2.bartol.udel.edu) wrote:
- : In <31285CB3.D2C@mts.se> Martin Nisshagen writes:
- :
- : > Here in Sweden I can buy 16Mb RAM (70ns) for $250 on mailorder. Seems like
- : > we should start to export some SIMMs to the US! :)
- :
- : I seriously doubt that. The cheapest price for a 16MB SIMM I found in a mail
- : order catalog (Inmac) I have here is $589.95. That was for a Mac. The cheapest
- : 16 MB SIMM for a PC in the same catalog is $689.95. I find it very doubtful
- : that SIMMs are less than half of those prices in Sweden. Check your math or
- : the exchange rates (about 7 SEK/$) again.
-
- Granted $250 sounds cheap, but $589.95 sounds outrageous. They cost about
- $500 Canadian at the corner store here. That's about $350 US...
-
- Reg Martin
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