Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!lll-lcc!pyramid!voder!apple!dwb From: dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac II Video RAM -- Good mail order source Message-ID: <6809@apple.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 18:09:56 EST Article-I.D.: apple.6809 Posted: Mon Nov 23 18:09:56 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 26-Nov-87 23:52:01 EST References: <4675@cc5.bbn.COM> <389@tardis.cc.umich.edu> <4776@cc5.bbn.COM> Reply-To: dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry) Distribution: na Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA Lines: 26 Keywords: video expansion memory color In article <4776@cc5.bbn.COM> jjd@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM (James J Dempsey) writes: >In article <389@tardis.cc.umich.edu> emv@pepe.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) writes: >No, but I have their price list which they sent when I got my video >RAM. The do list SIMMs, but the prices are only OK: > >100 ns OKI 1048Kx8 M511000P-10 SIMM @ $265 >120 ns MITSUBISHI 1048Kx9 M5M4C1000J-12 SIMM @ $295 > >I assume that these are 1MB SIMMs, although the 1048 instead of 1024 >and the "x9" in the second entry confuse me. The best prices I have >seen for RAM are in the sub $200 range. The 1048 should almost certainly be 1024. The x8 and x9 refer to whether or not the simm has the parity slot filled in. Since the Mac doesn't use the parity you'd be spending $30 bucks for nothing. > > --Jim Dempsey-- > jjd@BBN.COM (Internet) > ..!{decvax, ihnp4, wjh12, harvard}!bbn!jjd (Usenet) -- David W. Berry dwb@well.uucp dwb@Delphi dwb@apple.com 973-5168@408.MaBell Disclaimer: Apple doesn't even know I have an opinion and certainly wouldn't want if they did.