Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!peirce.cis.ohio-state.edu!tj From: tj@peirce.cis.ohio-state.edu (Todd R Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Why not SIMMs? (was Re: A3000) Message-ID: <80283@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 9 May 90 18:56:32 GMT References: <79733@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <744@sagpd1.UUCP> <2252@awdprime.UUCP> <101993@convex.convex.com> <1780@corpane.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Todd R Johnson Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 26 In article <1780@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes: < I have seen SIMMs for as low as $75/megabyte. How < much would that cost in ZIPs? If you can find them. I think the price I < heard last (from a friend who was pricing memory a while back) they were < about $90-$100/megabyte. These were the 1mbit chips. < I just bought 4 1 meg 80ns SIMMs for $62.50 each from The Chip Merchant. < I don't have the prices available for the 4mbit chips. Since they are new < the prices are closer to each other (SIMM vs. ZIP). But I bet ya < that the 4meg SIMMs will be easier to find and cheaper on a per Megabyte basis < in a short time. The cheapest I've seen 4meg SIMMs is $500, but these should be coming down. ---Todd -=- Todd R. Johnson tj@cis.ohio-state.edu Laboratory for AI Research The Ohio State University