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- From: copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope)
- Subject: Re: RAM chips and the A3000
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 06:24:44 GMT
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- damiel@netcom.com (Paul Theodoropoulos) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- >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!
-
- You can also pack 32 megs of simms into nearly the same space using 4Meg parts.
-
- >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.
-
- Four megs of simms are around A$180, for 60ns parts. Not sure in the US, but
- I would expect around US$100. Faster to boot. And easier to install, and the
- price of them is falling fast due to their use in nearly every PC now made.
- A couple of months ago they were A$80 each, they're now A$45. In the same time
- zips have dropped nearly A$3. Woopee.:-)
- C= used zips in the A3000 because they were the same price at the time. Now
- it's time to change. It cost me A$240 for four megs of zips, simms would have
- cost A$180. :-(
-
- Oh well.
-
- >in four more years, ram will be cheaper than mechanical (harddrive) storage.
-
- Probably. So stop groveling for VM everyone :-)
-
- >--
- >paul theodoropoulos damiel@netcom.com
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