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From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP9000 Memory (Wanted)
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Date: 26 Jun 89 11:17:52 GMT
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In article <1624@zen.co.uk> vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin) writes:
>I just saw the price for 80MB on a 950: 252,000 UK pounds.
>What do they use, silicon from the Moon ? :-)

A price of about 3,000 pounds per megabyte is quite cheap by HP
standards. After all, it's only about 10 times the going rate for memory
- a moderate rip-off by HP standards.

		Jim