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From: landman%hanami@Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Memory Prices for MAC-IIs
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Date: 12 May 88 12:07:44 GMT
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In article <481@cmx.npac.syr.edu> billo@cmx.npac.syr.edu (Bill O'Farrell) writes:
>Our staff here are getting quotes of about $500 for each megabyte of
>add-on memory for our MAC-IIs.  This sounds like a lot to me.  I'm
>interested in what kind of prices (outrageous or otherwise) other
>people have paid for memory recently.

Fry's is advertising 100nS (!) SIMMs for $549, I think.  These are faster
than you need for a Mac (even the II only requires 120nS), and they have
9 chips even though a Mac doesn't use the parity bit (i.e. the last chip
is wasted).  Overkill, but they're available today.

I saw another ad for under $300, but the type and speed were unspecified.

Me, I'll wait.

	Howard A. Landman
	landman@hanami.sun.com
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