Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!ll-xn!oberon!sdcrdcf!trwrb!cadovax!gryphon!crash!pro-pac.CTS.COM!tsouth From: tsouth@pro-pac.CTS.COM (Todd South) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 256K DRAMS Message-ID: <3051@crash.cts.com> Date: 1 Jun 88 16:20:47 GMT Sender: news@crash.cts.com Lines: 32 Posted: Wed Jun 1 09:20:47 1988 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 -- UUCP: {nosc, ihnp4, cacilj, sdcsvax, hplabs!hp-sdd, sun!ihnp4} ...!crash!pnet01!pro-simasd!pro-pac!tsouth ARPA: crash!pnet01!pro-simasd!pro-pac!tsouth@nosc.MIL INET: tsouth@pro-pac.CTS.COM - BITNET: pro-pac.UUCP!tsouth@PSUVAX1