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From: fsfacca@lerc08.nas.nasa.gov (Tony Facca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  Memory Upgrades..
Message-ID: <8904291715.AA11067@lerc08.nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 29 Apr 89 17:15:40 GMT
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>We have several Iris 4D 20's and a 4D70 and they all want to have 
>their memory upgraded, but SGI wants lots and lots of money to do it.

>The memory seems to be in the form of 1Meg simms.  What is the preferred

>>We recently bought several IRIS 4D 20's with 8 meg of memory and then upgraded
>>them to 16 meg ourselves.  SGI wanted about $ 1200  a meg for memory and we
>>paid $ 310 a meg on the open market.  We just specified 1 meg SIMMS, 100 nsec, 

Just wanted to add: 
Another company, "ClearPoint" sells the SIMMS for the 4D/20's but it was my
impression that there was some difference in the SIMMS for the 4D/70's, making
them unavailable on the open market.  Has anyone else heard this?
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