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From: scott@stsci.EDU (Jim Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A3000 chip prices revisited
Keywords: A3000, RAM, Chips
Message-ID: <1832@nemesis.stsci.edu>
Date: 28 Sep 90 00:58:28 GMT
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218
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Although this is sort of beating a deadhorse:

Several people have noted my 'outrageous' claims about the
A3000's RAM chip prices.

Please refer to Briwall's ads (i.e., Amiga World, 10/90)
or Grapevine Group (ditto) or Memory World (also, ditto.)

1Mx4 chips : $68,$54.95,$56.95 
256x4 chips: $13,------,$12.00

I claimed $15.  Sorry.  I was doing that from memory (no pun
intended at work.)  Really, they are about $13.00 per chip.

The fact still remains that the A3000 FAST RAM prices are
$136 and $104 per MEG, as stated by me.  Recall that you
MUST add each bank in sets of 8.  8 256x4 give 1MEG, 8 1Mx4
give 4MEG.  These are all static column ZIPS.

Therefore, if the A3000 25-100 comes with 5Meg RAM and the
A3000 25-50 comes with 1Meg the 4Meg difference averages
out to about $470.  So the education discount difference of
$800 means you're paying $330 for the extra 50MEG of hard
drive.  This difference is even more reasonable if the 
A3000 25-100 comes with the 1Mx4 chips, as I suspect it
does.

Again, this is reasonable.

Approximations on calculations 'not-with-standing' this
is correct.  If it REALLY is cheaper ($75/MEG!), let me
know so I can add another 4MEG of RAM now.  I need it!

  Jim