Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!homxb!vertigo!rusty From: rusty@vertigo.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Memory Management (now memory chip prices) Message-ID: <182@vertigo.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 22:39:16 EST Article-I.D.: vertigo.182 Posted: Thu Dec 3 22:39:16 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 01:07:48 EST References: <8711201906.AA25134@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <1406@atkins.munsell.UUCP> <7958@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <4602@well.UUCP> Reply-To: rusty@vertigo.UUCP (91341-M.W.HADDOCK) Organization: AT&T Consumer Products Laboratories Lines: 39 Summary: Cheaper chips In article <4602@well.UUCP> perry@well.UUCP (Perry S. Kivolowitz) writes: >In article <7958@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> oconnor@sunray.UUCP (Dennis Oconnor) writes: >>Well, on the one hand, this means you are still limited to 8.5MB of >>memory. Doesn't it? So why bother? Just buy the 8MB and have real speed. >>What does 8MB cost, anyway? $1500 ? > >If you got an average buy at todays prices 64 1 megabut drams would >cost you $1728 by themselves. Then add the board they go on. Labor. Rent. Perry and anyone interested, While not the "average buy" the lowest price I've seen on 1-MBit DRAM chips is from "JDR Microdevices" is Los Gatos, CA (funny, that name rings a bell from somewhere :-). If they hold true to the ad they have in the December issue of Computer Shopper (pg 525) then 120-ns 1-Meg DRAM chips can be had for $19.95 a piece in single quantities - no idea about "quantity" discounts. Given this, 64 chips for an 8-Megbyte board would cost $1276.88 (sans tax and any quantity disc.). Since I already have 2-Meg on my 8-Meg board I can fill it for $957.60. =====WARNING WILL ROBINSON===== I've never dealt with "JDR Microdevices" before so Heaven knows if they're a reasonable supplier. They do have a toll free (1-800-) telephone number plus FAX and Telex numbers are given in the ad as well. I've also seen their ads in various mags for at least several (>5) years so... maybe this tells ya something, maybe it doesn't. =====DR SMITH, DON'T PULL THE ROBOT'S POWER PACK OUT!===== Then again, it could be that these chips have a funky, not-the-standard- pin-out-we-need-type of chip. Is this a possibility with today's 1-Meg DRAMs (given 1048576x1 configuration) ??? -Rusty- -- Rusty Haddock {{uunet!likewise!}cbosgd,rutgers!moss}!vertigo!rusty AT&T-IS Consumer Products Laboratories - Human Factors Laboratory Holmdel, New Joysey 07733 (201) 834-1023 -- Being schizophrenic is better than living alone. --