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From: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG)
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Subject: Re: Reasonably priced IIfx???
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Date: 13 Apr 90 15:31:38 GMT
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In article <52756@coherent.coherent.com> dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) writes:
>In article <134231@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> fiddler@concertina.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes:
>
>> At least one third-party vendor has announced that they will be
>> selling the fancy 64-pin SIMMs...for about half of Apple's
>> price.
>
>There were at least two vendors on the main floor at MacWorld yesterday,
>offering 1-meg fx-compatible SIMMs.  One big seller was asking $139/meg,
>while a small "buy direct out of the box" vendor was asking $109/meg.
>4-meg fx-compatible SIMMs will be available shortly.
>


A worker at the Technology Works booth mentioned show special prices of
$98 for FX 1-meg SIMMs and $500 for FX 4-meg SIMMs.

I wasn't really in SIMM-hunting mode so I didn't do a lot of comparison
shopping.  These prices seemed damn good to me, though.

Of course, there's probably enough competition to drive some of the
prices lower in the next couple of months.  Any upturn in memory
prices was not evident on the floors of the MacWorld Expo.

John Heckendorn
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