Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop
From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: No SIMMS (was FullWrite Professional)
Message-ID: <578@stech.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 88 15:16:13 GMT
References: <17405@cornell.UUCP>
Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
Lines: 33

in article <17405@cornell.UUCP>, hal@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins) says:
> 
> In article <13618@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> sarrel@kazoo.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) writes:
>>If you know of any way to get SIMMs in a reasonable amount of time,
>>please let me know.  (Don't tell anyone else, though, until my order
>>comes in. :-) )
> 
> I've been on a waiting list to get more memory for my Mac Plus for
> several months now.  Last weekend I checked with the service person at
> my local computer store and she said that the latest Apple service
> bulletin now lists SIMMS as "not currently available" -- i.e. they have
> been more-or-less withdrawn from the catalog until the chip supply
> situation improves.  It doesn't matter if you are a member of the
> university consortium or just an ordinary customer.  You'll have to
> wait.

I got some 256K SIMMS for my Mac II (2 Meg is more than 100% than 1 Meg...)
by posting a request for them over this network. A number of people who
had used SIMMS for sale responded to my posting. I bought one set and am
happy as a clam. I highly recommend that method!


Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
UUCP: ihnp4!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop
BITNET: JHARRY@BENTLEY

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