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From: nova!hart@decwrl.dec.com (Howard C. Hart)
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Subject: Re: Adding Memory to 3/60 or 3/80
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 23 Aug 89 18:40:14 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 105, message 4 of 12

In article <707@brazos.Rice.edu> dialogic!gerry@uunet.uu.net (Gerry Lachac) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 91, message 5 of 16
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>The Situation:
>
>We just installed a 3/60 as a small fileserver.  We ordered 4 extra megs
>from our supplier who graciously gave us a "price break" from $2500 to
>$1500, installation included.  
>it was 4 1-meg SIMMs (80 ns).  At $1500?  Is there something special about

Quoted from Clearpoint on 22 Aug 89, List price 1MB Sparcstation SIMMs at
$255/MB = $1020/4MB. Pretty sure they're 80ns SIMMs (vs 100 ns SIMMs which
supposedly will still work on SPARCSTATIONS or 3/80's, just 20 ns slower.)
Check with other dealers like Parity, Helios, Solflower, etc (sorry if I
missed any). Lowest prices switch between vendors from week to week.

>As far as I can tell you drop the SIMMs in (4 meg increments) and move
>a jumper (same as ethernet jumper).  Am I on the right track?
> 

Sounds tough doesn't it? I'd let your vendor do it for $400-$1400, it took
me almost 10 minutes :-).

DISCLAIMER: These opinions are my own, not Lockheed's or Morton Downey's

Howard C. Hart                  UUCP:{sun!sunncal,pyramid}!leadsv!laic!nova!hart
Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
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