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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Basic A500 Expansion Questions.
Message-ID: <5500@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 89 00:20:57 GMT
References: <419500011@I5000.Prime.COM>
Reply-To: knaup@cpsin3.UUCP (Kirstin A Knaup)
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State Univ., E. Lansing
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(I'm not actually Knaup; she was kind enough to let me post this.)

(As long as someone else ventured to ask some novice questions....)

I'm thinking of buying an A500, and of course I'll need more than 512K.
I've been looking through all the Amiga mags, and there seems to be a
huge discrepancy between the price of RAM depending on whether you buy
the expansions populated or do it yourself.  A one meg 70ns chip costs
around 15 bucks, 4 256K 100ns about 25, and it seems if all you have to
do is plug them into a board, it saves you an inexplicable amount of
money.  Is there something I'm missing, or is it really so tricky that
dealers can get away with selling a couple of megs for $500?

Please enlighten me!

(Oh -- how does one post an original message?)