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From: root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ram Chips...
Summary: Ram chips cost money now...
Keywords: Cost, Price, OHMYGOD!, IThinkI'mGonnaBarf
Message-ID: <1294@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 22 May 88 13:11:59 GMT
References: <724@csm9a.UUCP>
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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In article <724@csm9a.UUCP>, ngorelic@csm9a.UUCP (Noel Gorelick) writes:
>      Ok, so the first question here is, what do I do?  I can't
> afford $500/meg.  And the price doesn't appear to be going down real
> soon.  I figured it would be cheaper to buy an expasion board for
> the 2000, unsolder the chips, and put them on a board for the 1000.
> but thats still $300/Meg...
	
	First thing I would do is write a letter to the US Gov't expressing
	your concern about how they have messed up..  And how you are going
	to remember this come election time.  Send two more letters to
	TI and perhaps Micron Technology thanking them for their lobbying
	efforts and helping raise semiconductor prices.  Explain to them
	how much better you'll sleep at night knowing that you've paid
	out $17/256K and that they will finally be able to pay off obsolete
	process lines.  Then drop a line to Toshiba, Nec, etc thanking them 
	for dumping 256K chips.  And don't neglect a few letters to the media 
	for publishing all the hype about Toshiba. 

	Seriously, about the only way I can think of getting some 256K's
	chip is maybe finding a surplus board at a computerfest/hamfest
	that has easily removed chips.  Otherwise, you wait.  Like the
	rest of us.

> 
>      Any suggestions?  Anybody know a good chip dealer in Tokoyo?
>                        Anybody know how much round-trip tickets are to Japan?

	As pointed out on BIX, even Tokoyo parts houses are short on 
	256K's.  It was said that sources are drying up even in Korea..

> 
> "Your kidding, You mean it's         |      ngorelic@csm9a 
>     supposed to make those noises?"  |   ...udenva!isis!csm9a!ngorelic
> 				     |  ...boulder!isis!csm9a!ngorelic

						Rick Spanbauer
						SUNY/Stony Brook