Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!convex.csd.uwm.edu!anthony From: anthony@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: More on the CF-150B Message-ID: <10028@uwm.edu> Date: 7 Mar 91 17:41:03 GMT References: <1991Feb23.053309.1081@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <9723@uwm.edu> Sender: news@uwm.edu Distribution: comp.sys.laptops Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Lines: 19 >Well... is $350 expensive enough? Looks like a rip-off to me -- anybody >know how much 1MB static RAM usually costs? If someone has any idea how >to build your own CF150B RAM expansion, I'd really like to hear from you! >With this price differential, there might even be some small back alley >electronics store that make their own... any leads appreciated. Well, $350 is pretty high compared to $50 (or less) for standard dynamic RAM SIMMs. But this is a pretty typical price for low power proprietary RAM modules. The 768K card for my T1000 now costs $250 (list $600). If you think these are high prices, a *128K* RAM card for an HP48s handheld computer is $320!. The RAM cards used in the new Toshibas at least are popular enough that there is more than one third party making them, competition brings the price down. Hopefully there will be a single standard that all machines, Atari Portfolio, Hewlett-Packards, Poquet handhelds, and the various MS-DOS laptops can use. It hasn't happened yet. -- <-:(= Anthony Stieber anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony