hgw@julia.math.ucla.edu (02/23/89)
Has it started yet? Since it was before my time, how cheap did memory chips (SIMMS) get before it got expensive. There is an ad from The Chip Merchant for $195 per SIMM. I know it's cheap but is it really? Should I wait? Will it get better? Let the war begin! The Chip Merchant can be reached at 619-268-4774 BTW: I don't know them and do not work for them. But if I did, I bet I can really get some cheap chips. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harold Wong (213) 825-9040 UCLA-Mathnet; 3915F MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA 90024-1555 ARPA: hgw@math.ucla.edu BITNET: hgw%math.ucla.edu@INTERBIT
malczews@castor.usc.edu (Frank Malczewski) (02/23/89)
Well, back in the olden days even, $195/M was a real good price for chips. -- Frank Malczewski
sd5y@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU (02/25/89)
In article <2806@nunki.usc.edu> malczews@castor.usc.edu (Frank Malczewski) writes: >Well, back in the olden days even, $195/M was a real good price for chips. > > -- Frank Malczewski The lowest prices were around that price indead, but that was for low profile chips. The ones from "the chip merchand" are high profile I think. So there is still about a $30 dollars difference. I would wait a little longer and see ..... ---------------- Alain Dumesny Cornell University
sd5y@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU (02/27/89)
In article <504@salgado.stan.UUCP> dce@salgado.UUCP (David Elliott) writes: > >A related subject: SE owners have it a lot easier in terms of >upgrades, since they only have to modify two SIMM slots. Are the Macs >of the future going to go back to this configuration? As it stands, > >David Elliott ...!pyramid!boulder!stan!dce >"Splish splash, I was rakin' in the cash" -- Eno Not if they are going to use the 68030 (or 020) which seems to be the case. (SE/30, macIIcx,...). You have to upgrade your macIIs or SE/30 using 4 simms because they are true 32 bit machines (each simms have normally 8 chips (sometimes 9 but parity checking isn't used on the mac), so you need 4 simms = 32 chips (1 chip per bit is required for interleave memory)). So expect in the futur to be the same as the current macIIs are (unless they come with a low cost 68000....) Alain Dumesny---
hgw@julia.math.ucla.edu (Harold Wong) (02/28/89)
In article <18031@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> awzy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Alain Dumesny) writes: >The lowest prices were around that price indead, but that was for low profile >chips. The ones from "the chip merchand" are high profile I think. So there >is still about a $30 dollars difference. I would wait a little longer and see >..... I just spoke to then, the chips are indeed low profile. Let the war begin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harold Wong (213) 825-9040 UCLA-Mathnet; 3915F MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA 90024-1555 ARPA: hgw@math.ucla.edu BITNET: hgw%math.ucla.edu@INTERBIT
melby@s.cs.uiuc.edu (03/03/89)
I talked to some people about SIMMs while I was in Japan - apparently they are relatively cheap if ordered from Taiwan in quantities of several thousand. Of course, there is a huge demand for them. Besides, the importation of most Taiwanese SIMMs into the U.S. is probably illegal.