Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!uwmcsd1!marque!gryphon!jdm From: jdm@gryphon.CTS.COM (John Mesiavech) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 256K DRAMS Keywords: <-- Say WHAT?? A Ram Key-Word? Hmmmm... Message-ID: <4306@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 2 Jun 88 06:46:48 GMT References: <3051@crash.cts.com> Reply-To: jdm@gryphon.CTS.COM (John Mesiavech) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 60 Summary:Point of information here....... In article <3051@crash.cts.com> tsouth@pro-pac.CTS.COM (Todd South) writes: > >In Article: <4271@gryphon.CTS.COM> mook@pnet02.cts.com (Ralph Stempel) >writes: > >> The LA Times had an article last week about the high cost/unavailability >> of 256K DRAMS. They quoted lots of people from a number of computer >> companies, and nobody suggested that there was any connection between this >> shortage and any government action. >> Their contention was that nobody was making any 256K's, having switched to >> producing 1meg DRAMS. The 1 meggers are supposed to catch up to demand by >> late '88/early'89. >> There is no reason to believe that there will ever be any appreciable >> number of 256K chips available. > >> -Ralph Stempel > >Okay, call me ignorant, but I still can't believe that! How many Amiga >owners here have 1meg sockets on their motherboards? How many IBM's, Mac's, >Apple ]['s, ST's, VT100's, Mac ]['s, or any other computers that are currently >being used in the educational or personal or small business markets are >actually using 1 meg chips on a regular basis? How many of you think that >you will pay for a motherboard upgrade so that you have 1 meg sockets only? >How many of you think that computer manufacturers will give you free mother- >board upgrades? (Commodore? not likely, Apple Inc.? No way!!!) > >Todd South > >-- Point of information: Chips Used by Various Computers.. 1) Amiga: 256K standard, some Zorro II boards use 1 meg SIMM packages 2) Mac: All expansion on Macs of any flavor are in the form of 1 meg SIMM (Simple Inline Memory Module) boards, two for 1 meg of RAM. 3) Atari ST: 256K chips 4) IBM: Varies by board maker; earlier boards used 64K, most modern use 256K. 5) Apple ][: Earlier ones used 16K (Pluse, some IIe), IIc used 64K, IIGS uses 256K Most people that I have seen that use 1 Meg chips do not have sockets; they use SIMM connectors and SIMM boards which are a HELLUVA lot more convenient to work with than your standard DIP package. But the man is correct in that the grand majority of RAM today is 256K chips. John -- 0-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-> All disclaimers apply; I didn't write this <-=-=-=-=-=-0 | ----------------------|------------------- | | "I want a New Duck | John Mesiavech | | One that won't try to bite | net.soldier.of.fortune | | One that won't chew a hole in my socks | {backbone}!gryphon!jdm | | One that won't Quack all night" | Go Purdue! (by req) | | Weird Al Yankovic, "I Want a New Duck" | | 0-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-0