clubmac@runx.ips.oz (Macintosh Users Group) (08/16/87)
We a looking into offering memory upgrade services to our members, and need
to know the suppliers/prices of 120 nanosecond 1-MegaBit SIMMs, for use in
Mac+'s, SE's and II's.
Thanks in advance,
Jason Haines, President
Club Mac Macintosh Users Group, Sydney, Australia
Telecom: (02) 73-4444
Snail: Box 213, Holme Building, Sydney University, NSW, 2006, Australia
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UUCP:{enea,hplabs,mcvax,prlb2,seismo,ubc-vision,ukc}!munnari!runx.ips.oz!clubmackorn@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Peter "Arrgh" Korn) (08/16/87)
In <1062@runx.ips.oz>, clubmac@runx.ips.oz (Macintosh Users Group) said: >We a looking into offering memory upgrade services to our members, and need >to know the suppliers/prices of 120 nanosecond 1-MegaBit SIMMs, for use in >Mac+'s, SE's and II's. I too have been looking into pricing of these beasties, in hopes of a) upgrading my II to give it more than the 1 Meg it came with, and b) to see if I could provide customers with pricing better than what Dove and Co. are charging. Unforunately, it appears I was just a few weeks too late. From my investigations, I discovered that the price of 1 Megabit chips has risen from about $15/chip to well over $25/chip (with some suppliers charging over $30/chip) over the last 3 weeks. Although SIMM prices haven't risen by the same ratio, I expect they will shortly (as the current set gets flushed out of the Japan pipeline). Right now, the lowest price I got on a 1 Megabyte SIMM strip was well over $200/strip (whith many places charging over $300/strip). With these high prices, I thought I'd look into making 256K chip bannana board SIMMS (32 256K chips on a SIMM), but pricing of those worked out to be around $150/SIMM for parts--not enough under the current prices to be worth it, and with a fair number of engineering problems that'd have to be worked out. At this point, my suggestion is to wait a while, and hope that prices go down (and perhaps write to your Congressman re: trade barriers with Japan) (unless $300+/SIMM board isn't too onerous an expense for you). Peter "all chip-ed out" Korn -- Peter "Arrgh" Korn korn@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU {decvax,dual,hplabs,sdcsvax,ulysses}!ucbvax!korn