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From: davids@ucscf.UCSC.EDU (Dave Schreiber)
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Subject: Re: Where's best place for A3000 RAM?
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Date: 16 Jan 91 17:58:12 GMT
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In article <8175@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) writes:
[...]
>So....   With the way RAM prices are changing all the time, where is
>the best place to buy RAM nowadays?  Specifically, I want to know
>about:
>
>  4 x 256K 80 ms static column ZIP's, and
>  4 x 1 meg 80 ms static column ZIP's.
>
>Prices and phone numbers for mail order firms would be lovely.  I have
>yet to decide which size to get.  It depends on the prices....

I would highly recommend BJS Electronics in Santa Clara, California.
Back in August when Kreuger was trying to sell me used page-mode 256Kx4
80ns ZIPs for $6+, I got new, static-column mode 256Kx4 80ns ZIPs for $8
from BJS.  They're primarily mail-order, although they handle walk-in
customers as well.

I just called them this morning re. the price of 1Mbx4 80ns s-c ZIPs.  The
person I talked to gave me a price of $38/ZIP for a quantity of 16 (not
including shipping);  alert readers will note that this is fairly close
to the $/Mb level of the 256Kx4's I got last August...seems the prices of
these chips are finally getting reasonable.  I didn't check the 256Kx4 
prices. 

BJS's phone number is 408-748-9762.

>           Dan Zerkle  zerkle@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu  (916) 754-0240
>           Amiga...  Because life is too short for boring computers.


-- 
Dave Schreiber                                    davids@slugmail.ucsc.edu 
                                or (but not both) davids@ucscf.ucsc.edu
"It was fun learning about logic, but I don't see where or when I will ever
use it again."