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From: fenger@galaxy.uucp (Steven V Fenger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 1 Megabit DRAMS; 80-ns 32 of them; $150
Message-ID: <1991Feb3.050247.20455@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 3 Feb 91 05:02:47 GMT
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In article <1991Feb2.211543.7572@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
rschmidt@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (roy schmidt) stuck in the IBM world writes:

>In article <1991Feb1.225626.14137@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> carter@cat34.cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter) writes:
>>Anybody want 32 1 Megabit DRAM 80ns Motorola chips for $150 dollars?
>>(4 Megs)     ^^
>
>It takes *36* 1MB chips to make 4 MBytes (9 per bank).  Anyways, $150.00
>is about the current street price for 4 MBytes (36 chips), so what is
>the inducement to buy used chips???
>
>
It takes 36 chips if you have parity memory.  You only need *32* for
machines such as Macs which don't use parity memory.

Also if you know where you can get a megabyte of memory for $37.50,
please tell me.

Steven Fenger
fenger@cps.msu.edu