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From: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1 Megabit DRAMs
Message-ID: <13035@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 17:44:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdahl.13035
Posted: Thu Aug 27 17:44:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Aug-87 11:56:08 EDT
References: <3817@well.UUCP> <3831@well.UUCP>
Organization: Amdahl Corporation,  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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Keywords: cost
Summary: Let's hear it for our Federal Government!

In article <3831@well.UUCP>, spg@well.UUCP (Stephen P. Grant) writes:
> 
> 1 MB DRAMs for $23.00 from Access WAS a bargin.  Unfortunately we are out
> of those DRAMs and like Perry said, the price has gone up about $6.00 to
> $8.00 IF you can find them.
>                                        It isn't only the 1 MB DRAMs that have
> increased in price, the 256K DRAMs have gone from around $2.00 to about
> $3.00 also.  What this means is that everyone making memory boards will
> have to raise their prices significantly.  And this was done to protect
> American DRAM manufacturers (currently 1, Micron Technologies).  Let's
> here it for FREE TRADE!

And give a big hand to Ronald "Ronnie the Rayguns" Reagan, our late dearly
departed Secretary of Commerce, SEMA, our poor abused chip manufacturers,
and a cast of thousands, while you're at it!  Thanks for saving us from
those mean, nasty, conniving folks in the East ... great to know you're
*really* looking out for us!  I sleep so well at nights now ....

Did anyone really *believe* them when they said the cost to consumers
would be "slight" ... 30% is *slight*!?  Give me a break!

"The best government, is no government at all."

/kim


[  Any thoughts or opinions which may or may not have been expressed  ]
[  herein are my own.  They are not necessarily those of my employer. ]

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