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From: smh@mhuxu.UUCP (S. M. Henning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple memory upgrade backlog
Message-ID: <7346@mhuxu.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 88 13:26:08 GMT
References: <793@entropy.ms.washington.edu> <4697@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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Summary: don't count you simms before you get them

In article <4697@pucc.Princeton.EDU>, RLWALD@pucc.UUCP(Rob Wald) writes:
> In article <793@entropy.ms.washington.edu>,  (Jim King) writes:
> >
> >I am curious to learn how long people have been having to wait to get
> >memory upgrades from Apple.  
> >I understand that there really is a SIMM shortage, so I have a certain
> >amount of sympathy for Apple's position, but I also have the feeling
> >that there are a lot of megabit SIMMs being shipped with AUX machines.
>  
>  
>     There is no real shortage of SIMMs except in economic terms which is
> why the price is going up.

I know of several orders for Memory Upgrades which have waited for over 3 months
due to the SIMM shortage.  The problem the manufacturers claim is that the
Asian memory chips drove the US manufacturers out of business and then could
not meet the demand for parts with a self imposed trade restriction on imports.
Thus our trade policy has shot us in the foot again.  

We have had no trouble geting SE's and II's which have the same memory chips.
That is pure economics.  Why jepordize the sale of a several $1000 system just
to sell memory upgrades?

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