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From: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Alegra memory board
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Date: Tue, 24-Jun-86 18:40:33 EDT
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To the best of my knowledge, Cardco has been shipping their 1MB ram boards
for at least three weeks.  The price of the boards are $499, if ordered
by phone, because Cardco has some distributor in Minnesota ship the boards.
I called them several times three weeks ago, and they wouldn't even take a
credit card number and ship when it was ready.  The last call I made, they
said they were shipping and would take my card.  I expect to be getting those
boards in the mail any day now.  

Computer Attic in Palo Alto has flyers saying they will be selling a 2MB
RAM board for $699 on July 1st.  I do not know if anyone has seen these
boards or whether they will be shipping on time.  These boards are supposed
to have some different type of connector instead of a bus pass-through,
to which other boards can be added (like other 2MB boards, clock, etc.), and
an optional bus passthrough card.  I do not know if the board will plug into
an official amiga expansion box slot.

$200 for an extra megabyte is awful tempting, but the Cardco boards are 100%
Amiga approved (pass the bus, autoconfig, etc), slap onto the side of the
amiga or into an expansion box, and are made by a company that has made
lots of similar products (for the C64) and is well established.  A few
months ago, any RAM at all would have been a dream come true.  Now there is
just beginning to be a large selection of peripherals for the Amiga, so I
figure it is worth not being required to be on the end of the bus.