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From: rogerj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT Memory SIMMs
Message-ID: <9889@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 90 01:46:24 GMT
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Reply-To: rogerj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <90067.160618SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> SLVQC@CUNYVM (Salvatore Saieva) writes:
>>BTW, NeXT either has or is about to announce new lower memory
>>prices if you order from them (funny that).
>>
Right, BFD, Mail order is still the way to go!
>
>Thanks for the reply. I called The Chip Merchant and they quoted
>me a price of $72.00/SIMM for orders submitted by PO. (I can only
>purchase these chips on PO. How did you order them Eric?) I also called
>Clearpoint who manufacture chips for the Mac. They claim people are
>using their chips in the NeXT without problems. Clearpoint will sell
>their chips for $68.00/SIMM after applying a discount they offer
>the the City University of New York. Is anyone using the Clearpoint
>SIMMs?
>
Nice discount! We used Clearpoint 1MB AND 4MB chips and they worked
great. That's a GOOD company. They even sent us about 64MB for
evaluation...NeXT doesn't...:-)
 
Mail order is definitley the way to go for memory...and probably
drives too if you don't mind hacking disktabs!
 
--Roger Jagoda
--Cornell University
--FQOJ@CORNELLA.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
>Sal.