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From: beatyr@pur-ee.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RAM boards and hard disks
Message-ID: <5720@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Mar-87 10:02:20 EST
Article-I.D.: pur-ee.5720
Posted: Wed Mar 11 10:02:20 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Mar-87 22:12:37 EST
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Reply-To: beatyr@pur-ee.UUCP (Robert Beaty)
Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University
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In article <4499@jhunix.UUCP> ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP (Daniel Jay Barrett) writes:
>TECHNISOFT RAM-BOard-1
                      ^----- This is important for later!

>	Has anyone bought this product?  It is a 2 Meg RAM expansion.
>The prices quoted in the January AMIGA WORLD were $499 for the 2Meg
>board and 3 empty sockets, and $299 for each additional 2Meg (to
>go in the sockets), for a maximum of 8 Meg.
>
>	Are there any wait states?  Is this price believable?
>That would make its list price even less than mail-order prices
>of other comparable boards.
>
...
>-- 
>  -- Dan Barrett	ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP
>			barrett@hopkins-eecs-bravo.arpa


Answers:
 - My co-worker and I (The Man From S.P.U.D.) both have the RAM-BOard 2
   (notice the 2!). They were $599.95 + $5.00 S&H. It took quite a while
   for them to arrive, but they finally came. Have worked flawlessly for
   several months at 24 hrs/day duty cycle (on all the time). Construction
   is better than most things I have seen for the Amiga (which is not to
   say that it is good.)

 - The 2Meg upgrades are $399.95 each. And you can put up to 8 Meg in the
   one box (it sits on top of the Amiga and under the monitor).

 - There are no wait states, as far as we can tell (i.e. fast ram is
   really faster than chip ram).

 - The RAM-BOard 1 (notice the 1!) was being sold for $499.95, but came
   as 1Meg expandable to 4Meg in 1Meg increments for $299.95 each. I do
   not know if these are still being sold... The last ads for expansion
   equipment show only the RAM-BOard 2. I suggest calling them in Utah.

If you have any questions let me know I will try to answer them.

				Bob

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