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From: tsouth@pro-pac.CTS.COM (Todd South)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:Ram Chips...
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Date: 23 May 88 00:41:26 GMT
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In Article: <724@csm9a.UUCP> ngorelic@csm9a.UUCP (Noel Gorelick) writes:


> But, thats of course with 0k in it.  Your probablly gonna have to
> wait a while on chips, 2-3 months, but when they come in, I'll grab
> you a couple.  It takes 32 for a meg, how many do you want?"  "Gosh" I
> said, " probably about 16 or so...   (very naively) How much are they?"
>      Without batting an eye, he says, very calmly, "$16.50"
>        I almost fainted.  "Apiece?!?"
>        "My god, thats... $500.00 for a Meg!  I can get an entire
>        computer for that much!"

Welcome to Reaganomics! :-)  Yes, for a few measley hundred dollars, you
too can have one meg of memory!

>     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...

Don't you find it rather funny that one can buy a board with one meg
of memory already on it, strip the board of the memory to put on another
board, and pay less!  Doesn't this smell of someone's stockpiling?

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

Unless things have changed drastically from when I was living there a few
years ago, things were *NEVER* cheaper in Japan!  The Japanese never sold
chips (or anything else for that matter) cheap to their own markets.  They
saved the low prices for the volumous U.S. market.

IMHO, I truly think that a lot of stockpiling went on during the low priced
floods.  But with this stupid trade agreement, Japan has to sell at the
same rate as American companies.  American companies?  Well, they could care
less about you, since its all a tax writeoff to them anyway (if they are
buyers) and you don;t need that much memory! (in the eyes of most producers,
and again, IMHO).  I still remember when I had a chance to buy a couple of
megs of 1024x1 memory at $18.50 a chip.  Too bad I just didn't buy it then
because the damn chips (along with every chip on the market today) has truly
escalated in price.

Come on, you chip producers!  I know that a number of you are reading this
feed!  Explain to us why 256K chips have risen 500% in the last two months.
They sure as hell weren't that much before the flooding began!  This is one
case where I think they will really screw themselves in the long run.  Too
bad the people that immediately suffer are the consumers.

Todd South ***Sitting back with Flame Shields on!***

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