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- From: bampf@iastate.edu (TC)
- Subject: Re: Micronics (Gateway) VL-Bus motherboards don't accept regular SIMMs
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1992Dec21.121035.45833@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 04:10:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.121035.45833@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> nschaper@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- >I think all of the Gateway VL-Bus systems use Micronics motherboards.
- >Anyway, it seems that these motherboards take some strange, non-standard
- >type of RAM. Talking to a sales rep at Gateway, I found out that they want
- >$165 (U.S. dollars) for each additional 4Meg of RAM.When I commented that
- that price seemed high......
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- With the current tariff on regular SIMM these days, $165 for 4 megs of RAM is
- cheap. A lot of places these days sell a meg for around $50 each, so 4 meg
- would be around $200.
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