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- From: damiel@netcom.com (Paul Theodoropoulos)
- Subject: Re: RAM chips and the A3000
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- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 15:56:22 GMT
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- In <copes.716016392@marsh> copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope) writes:
- >Import them from the US. They are much cheaper there.
- >When I bought mine they were $25 + tax, which came to $30 a chip. They are
- >now down to $22 + tax. About twice what you could get them for in the US, if
- >you look around. I've seen $14 a chip advertised.
- >I hope any new machine from C= will use simms. They are only $45 each here,
- >heaps cheaper than zips.
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- i certainly hope they don't. ZIPs have a number of advantages over simms, not
- the least of which is their density - you can pack 16meg of very fast ram onto
- the 3000 motherboard into a space no bigger than a pack of playing cards!
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- and at the current U.S. price of $14 a chip, thats $112 for FOUR meg, or
- less that $450 for sixteen meg. Hell, i spent $344 for ONE meg of ram only
- four years ago.
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- in four more years, ram will be cheaper than mechanical (harddrive) storage.
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- paul theodoropoulos damiel@netcom.com
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