Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!steve
From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 1Mb SIMMs available
Message-ID: <24263@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 10 May 89 21:42:02 GMT
References: <790001@hpnmdla.HP.COM> <18112@cup.portal.com> <2782@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Lines: 17

In article <2782@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Gordon E. Banks) writes:
#>Memory prices finally seem to be in free-fall.  This MacWeek (May 9) has
#>ads for $149 1Mb high-profile & $159 low profileSimms.  At Comdex people 
#>were saying that by the end of the year it will be down to $25/Mb when the 
#>4MB simms get plentiful.

Ah, and will Apple drop its prices any time soon, too? Or will
it continue to make its customers pay for its disastrous business
judgment [see Wall Street Journal, 1/30/89, "Apple Slips as
Result of Hoarding Chips: Costly Purchases May Cut Quarter's
Profit by 43%." The article noted that "Apple is still saddled
with nearly $80 million worth of memory chips."]. At a time
when the anticipation of System 7.0 will likely encourage many
people to upgrade their memory (I got my 5 megs before the prices
went up), it would be nice if Apple made it cheaper to do so.

Steve Goldfield