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From: tsouth@pro-pac.CTS.COM (Todd South)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 256K DRAMS
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Date: 1 Jun 88 16:20:47 GMT
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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

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