At 12:52 3/13/98 -0600, David wrote:
>256K DRAMs bring back all sorts of bad memories. We used to sell 384K
>expansions for the PCjr....Not only were they hell to populate, but when
>the DRAM prices went through the roof, we were only selling a few at ~$300
>a pop.
The thing about those Everex 3MB XMS cards was, I actually did several of
them (groan) with DRAM I'd stocked up on. At the worst of the RAM spike,
the best price I could have gotten on 256K DRAM was US$12.45 per chip.
Which made those d**n Everex cards worth, nominally, over $1300 each....
but we just gritted our teeth, because a 9-chip 1MB 30-pin SIMM was $595!
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Received on Fri Mar 13 1998 - 14:06:54 GMT