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Subject: Re: Where's best place for A3000 RAM?
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Date: 18 Jan 91 18:47:42 GMT
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In article <11155@darkstar.ucsc.edu> davids@ucscf.UCSC.EDU (Dave Schreiber) writes:
>
>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.

Thanks for the tip! I called them this morning and I now have
4 megabytes coming my way at the current price of $5.75/chip!
(514258's)

That's 41% of what my local Amiga dealer wants (uninstalled)!!!

Does anyone know if Commodore will be bundling the 1Mx4 chips in with
the UNIX upgrade package when it comes out? And/or big SCSI drives
for that matter?

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