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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-
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