Re: DRAM: an unbelievable bargain! (was Re: Intel Price Drop?

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From: pitzel
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 00:00

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>Fry's is advertising 128MB of PC100 for $164.   (Also, they have a
>Seagate UDMA/33 8.6GB HD for $199!!!).  So, around $1/MB for


Gee, that price on memory is exactly what we pay up here in Canada at any
local computer shop.  No Fry's special; no quantity limits, and it's
fairly readily available.  I have bought 256mb ECC SDRAM PC100 DIMMS up
here for around US$250 as well.

>heading toward $100 for 300Mhz Pentium-class CPUs and high

Exactly what we pay here in Canada for AMD K6-300 CPU's as well.

What's so great about those prices??  Are we Canadians just paying so much
less than everyone else is in the south??

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From: pitzel@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: DRAM: an unbelievable bargain!  (was Re: Intel Price Drop?
Date: 1998/08/03
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