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From: bobd@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Bob Debula)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP 9000/835 memory usage (System crawling ...)
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Date: 18 Sep 90 15:41:30 GMT
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In article <117@bwilab3.UUCP> brad@bwilab3.UUCP (Bradley Ward) writes:

>I hope the answer is not simply "buy more memory".  I can easily drop
>8 Meg more into my PC's and Mac's, cause I can do it for $1000 or so.
>$10,000 + for HP 800 memory makes that a much more painful
>alternative.

Too right!  Actually, with a little judicious shopping, you can
get Mac 1 Mb SIMMs for around $50 apiece (~$400 for 8Mb) and
PC SIMMs for not a whole lot more.  We have an HP9000/840
which will probably stay at 16Mb in perpetuity.  The
price we were quoted for upgrading to 32Mb ran somewhere
around $1000/Mb if I remember correctly (including HPs largish
university discount).  We took the
attitude "just let it swap" until we can get a larger 
system(s) in place.  IMHO HP's memory pricing (for the 
HP9000/8xx series) is SCANDALOUS. 

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