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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
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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
 


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