bdenh@caen.engin.umich.edu (Brian J Denheyer) (03/28/89)
Egads ! Imagine my surprise when I found that 256k chips were 12.00$ and up each (150 ns)! This is not the place for it, but that semiconductor agreement was a lot of garbage. Now the Japanese, who still own 90% of the DRAM market anyway, are making many $$$$$. You know it's bad when 256K static ram prices are about the same as the DRAM prices. Well this kind of puts a damper on my memory expansion plans, but thank you very much to all those who responded . And especially thanks for the explanation as to why you can only add certain memory increments at a time. It seems that the Datafree memory board is the favorite. Now when RAM prices get back to being reasonable I can buy one. By the way does anybody have one of them there polydisks and how do you like it ? Brian "I can't believe how expensive DRAM's are" Denheyer
clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser) (03/28/89)
$12.00 for chips? Where do you shop? Grab a copy of Computer Shopper and look for prices. $12 is far too much for 256k chips. The prices I've seen are $8 or so for 120ns chips. =cf=
tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup) (03/30/89)
From article <42477bea.17b59@bunting.engin.umich.edu>, by bdenh@caen.engin.umich.edu (Brian J Denheyer): > > Egads ! Imagine my surprise when I found that 256k chips were > 12.00$ and up each (150 ns)! WOW! And I just paid $16.99 each for 1 Meg DRAMS! Fry's Electronics Fremont CA 415-770-3700 (I don't work for 'em, just thought the price was right!) -- Tim Northrup +------------------------------------------+ +---------------------------------+ GEnie: T.Northrup | UUCP: uunet!steinmetz!brspyr1!tim | Air Warrior: "Duke" | ARPA: tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com +------------------------------------------+
Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com (03/30/89)
Brian J. Denheyer writes: >Egads ! Imagine my surprise when I found that 256k chips were >12.00$ and up each (150 ns)! >This is not the place for it, but that semiconductor agreement was a >lot of garbage. Hang onto your hat... now they're trying to do the SAME thing to 3.5 inch floppy disks from Japan... BobR