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From: campbell%maynard.uucp@BRL.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Scam prices on NEC V20
Message-ID: <745@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 15:53:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 16 15:53:34 1985
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I can't believe anyone is paying even $29.95 for NEC V20 chips,
let alone $40!!  I got mine for $11.00 quantity one from Gerber
Electronics, a nearby (Norwood, MA) electronics distributor.
(That's the 5MHz part, the 8MHz part was $16.00 I think.)

Let's see, at $11 quantity 1, it's probably about $5 quantity 1000...
Maybe I should go into business...  get an ad in Byte, charge
$40 each, move to Bermuda, buy a Lamborghini...

[By the way, the chip works perfectly, except when running braindamaged
software with timing loops]
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Larry Campbell                                 The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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