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From: WTW101@psuvm.psu.edu (Bill Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 1 Megabit DRAMS; 80-ns 32 of them; $150
Message-ID: <91035.220315WTW101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 91 03:03:15 GMT
References: <1991Feb3.050247.20455@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
 <1991Feb4.164557.8982@cbnewsd.att.com>
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In article <1991Feb4.164557.8982@cbnewsd.att.com>, klotz@cbnewsd.att.com
(david.a.klotzbach) says:
>
>From article <1991Feb3.050247.20455@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, by fenger@galaxy.uucp
>(Steven V Fenger):
>> In article <1991Feb2.211543.7572@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
>> rschmidt@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (roy schmidt) stuck in the IBM world 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
>> It takes 36 chips if you have parity memory.  You only need *32* for
>> machines such as Macs which don't use parity memory.
>                    ^^^
>Since this is comp.sys.ibm.pc, who cares how many chips it takes to make
>a meg on a mac? The point remains, 32 chips are worthless to an
>IBM.pc user.
>

My Gateway 2000/386 includes parity chips on board for 8 megs.  I currently
have 4 Megs.  So, if I were to buy 4 more Megs, I would need exactly
32 chips.  Sounds like you are rather wrong.

Bill Warner
wtw101@psuvm.psu.edu