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From: don@brahms.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 trade up offer
Message-ID: <20944@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: 29 Apr 91 22:15:45 GMT
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In article <1991Apr29.064832.9865@disk.uucp> specter@disk.uucp (Byron Max Guernsey) writes:
>valentin@public.BTR.COM (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
>>A3000	16Mhz	2Mb	 50MB hard	$1850
>>	25MHz	2Mb	 50MB hard	$2250
>>	25Mhz	5Mb	100Mb hard	$3200
>>	25Mhz	5Mb	200Mb hard	$3650
>
>Just wondering, why is there a 1000$ difference between a 100mb with 5 megs
>and a 50mb with 2 megs? Isn't that a bit ridiculous?
>
>I was told by a friend (who also deals in IBM's) that he would sell me a 100
>meg SCSI for around 300$ new. (around 300-400$ range). He said for the
>500-600$ range I could go for a 300 meg. It seems that ram is selling for
>about 75$ a meg now and 3 megs should be about 235$. So we are talking about
>500$ for 3 megs and a 100 meg drive. They seem to be charging that for a
>50 mb difference and 3 meg ram??? Sounds like I would order the system without
>a hard drive (if available) and buy my own somewhere else..
>

	Well, the HD's are fast, low-profile Quantums, not el cheapo Seagates
(I've been told that 3000's equipped with seagates actually have to delay 
starting up the system because the drives spin up too slowly for it... poorly
worded, but you get the idea).
	As for the memory, you're not talking about a couple of SIMMs.  You're
talking about the difference between two megs of regular ol' DIP style
80ns 32-bit RAM chips vs one meg of those plus 4 megs of 80ns Static Column
ZIPS (using the 1x4 chips, thus allowing room for 12 more megs of Fast RAM
and one more of CHIP).
	Haven't really looked at RAM prices lately other than for SC ZIPS, so
I won't argue with the price you were quoted (it sounds right to me),
but out of curiosity, what type of RAM was he talking about?  What speed
& configuration?


	

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