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From: jeffle@amtfocus.UUCP (Jeff Leitheiser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ram Chips...
Summary: We are paying it too!
Message-ID: <137@amtfocus.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 88 14:25:39 GMT
References: <2996@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Motorola Inc. GSG/AMT, Schaumburg, Illinois
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In article <2996@crash.cts.com>, tsouth@pro-pac.CTS.COM (Todd South) writes:
> > wait a while on chips, 2-3 months, but when they come in, I'll grab
> >        "My god, thats... $500.00 for a Meg!  I can get an entire
> 
> 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.

I agree that the RAM prices are killing people's dreams....not just the
computer hacker/consumers but industry itself. Motorola makes chips, but
another division also makes unix computers. Right now we lose money on our
memory boards because of the outrages spot market prices. The demand is so
great because of the large sales quanity of machines and there ever increasing
memory needs.

Anyway....I'd rather be short of something that I want for home than something
that my job depended on. The basic concept of helping the chip manufacturers
( Mot. included ) screwed the US computer industry.

jeff leitheiser......disclaimer et al