Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site wdl1.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!nsc!hplabs!hpda!fortune!wdl1!jbn
From: jbn@wdl1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: RAM prices
Message-ID: <708@wdl1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 21:25:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: wdl1.708
Posted: Fri Sep 20 21:25:29 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 08:15:39 EDT
Sender: notes@wdl1.UUCP
Organization: Ford Aerospace, Western Development Laboratories
Lines: 17
Nf-ID: #N:wdl1:1400072:000:415
Nf-From: wdl1!jbn    Sep 20 15:11:00 1985


From the Fry's Supermarket ad, San Jose Mercury News, 20 September 1985, 
page 23E.

		SCORCHING MEMORY PRICES AT FRY'S
	
		   64K RAM 150NS	$0.49
		  256K RAM 150NS	$2.69


That's $86 per megabyte, without parity.
The industry rule of thumb is that the retail price of a card is 4x the 
component price.  Allowing for the support chips, one should be paying
about $400 for a megabyte RAM board. 

					John Nagle


Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com