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From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Toshiba 2000SX memory
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Date: 8 May 91 21:29:56 GMT
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	"I'm wondering whether anyone might care to speculate on why
	Toshiba seems to think they can charge $1000's for extra memory
	on this machine?  I don't know about any of you, but the
	convenience of a user-installable credit-card memory system
	sure isn't worth that kind of money to me.  Is there a chance
	that third parties might offer compatible expansion memory or
	is this technology proprietary to Toshiba?"

I checked into this.  Here are prices for T2000SX "credit card" memory
expansions, manufactured by Kingston, offered by Sigma Data, phone
(800) 446-4525:

	1 meg  $ 200
	2 meg  $ 300
	4 meg  $ 650
	8 meg  $1300

You can only put one card into a T2000SX, so, if you're ever going to
want 8M, you don't ever want to buy 1M, 2M, or 4M -- you'll still have
to buy the 8M card to get a total expansion of 8M.

This is only one data point.  Other mail order houses may have lower
prices.  I have purchased memory from Sigma Data once and was
satisfied.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)    [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]