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- From: senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Increased Prices for Memory
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.051153.26035@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 05:11:53 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ringer.1992Nov7.051153.26035
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- In article <1992Nov6.140610.26884@athena.mit.edu> ertas@athena.mit.edu (Mehmet D Ertas) writes:
- >Yes, for the same reason, Kingston 3rd
- >party memory expansion kits for R4k (64 MB)
- >have also increased by $350. By the way,
- >I was also told that the design of
- >these have changed to include drivers in
- >order to eliminate any possible bus loading
- >problems, due to their unconventional(!) design.
- >The new design is available now.
- >
-
- Yikes! I just placed an order with Impediment on Thursday and we are suppose
- to receive the 32 MB upgrade package (for the R4K Indigo) on Monday. This is
- the first I have heard of including "drivers" with the RAM so as not to load
- the bus. I have no idea which type of memory Impediment is sending (all I
- know is that it's going to cost me more that it would have last week :(
-
- Am I correct in assuming that I should be able to easily tell whether these
- chips are the old or new design? (i.e. are the drivers are easy to spot?).
- Should I refuse delivery if there are the "old" design?
-
- Can anyone (Dave?) elaborate on what's going on? Thanks.
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