mikew@athena.mit.edu (Michael B Williams) (02/09/90)
I've been trying to upgrade the memory on my NEC Powermate SX with the special 4MB memory expansion board that NEC offers. After calling around, I find that most of the clone board makers don't have it, and the lowest local dealer wants $1010. I was about to get it, but a friend insisted that's too much to pay. Sure enough, PC Week shows prices hovering around $100 per MB!!! That's over $600 for the 0K board!!! Does anyone know of a place to get NEC memory boards cheap? (Or even for a reasonable price, like Marshall L. Buhl found the 4MB Compaq memory for $600?) Failing that, would a standard $99 AT memory board suffice? ...Mike ======================================================================== Michael B. Williams EMAIL: mikew@athena.mit.edu Massachusetts Institute of Technology VOICE: (617) 253-6015 Laboratory of Computer Science 545 Technology Square Suite NE43-527 Cambridge, MA 02139
nfs@notecnirp.Princeton.EDU (Norbert Schlenker) (02/09/90)
In article <1990Feb8.220026.25073@athena.mit.edu> mikew@athena.mit.edu (Michael B Williams) writes:
]I've been trying to upgrade the memory on my NEC Powermate SX with the
]special 4MB memory expansion board that NEC offers. After calling around,
]I find that most of the clone board makers don't have it, and the lowest
]local dealer wants $1010. I was about to get it, but a friend insisted
]that's too much to pay. Sure enough, PC Week shows prices hovering around
]$100 per MB!!! That's over $600 for the 0K board!!!
]...
You should consider yourself fortunate. Toshiba wants ~$1200 for an extra
2Mb in a T5100. The best price I've seen is ~$1000. Does anyone know of
a better price?
Norbertmvolo@uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow) (02/10/90)
If the 80386SX is a 32-bit processor with a 16 bit data bus, is motherboard memory accessed 16 bits at a time, the same as I/O. If this is so, how can an NEC 386SX utilize a 32-bit memory board? Or is 32-memory access possible with a 386SX? M Volow, VA Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705 mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP 919 286 0411