andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) (05/09/91)
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"I'm wondering whether anyone might care to speculate on why
Toshiba seems to think they can charge $1000's for extra memory
on this machine? I don't know about any of you, but the
convenience of a user-installable credit-card memory system
sure isn't worth that kind of money to me. Is there a chance
that third parties might offer compatible expansion memory or
is this technology proprietary to Toshiba?"
I checked into this. Here are prices for T2000SX "credit card" memory
expansions, manufactured by Kingston, offered by Sigma Data, phone
(800) 446-4525:
1 meg $ 200
2 meg $ 300
4 meg $ 650
8 meg $1300
You can only put one card into a T2000SX, so, if you're ever going to
want 8M, you don't ever want to buy 1M, 2M, or 4M -- you'll still have
to buy the 8M card to get a total expansion of 8M.
This is only one data point. Other mail order houses may have lower
prices. I have purchased memory from Sigma Data once and was
satisfied.
-=- Andrew Klossner (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew) [UUCP]
(andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net) [ARPA]