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From: Don Hosek
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1991 10:56

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My latest batch of RAM just popped up in the mail yesterday, and
as I'm about to pop it in the SIMM sockets, I'm thinking that
something looks wrong here... I compare it to the other 1Mx9
SIMMs in the memory board and note that they seem to be shy six
chips, then I remember: apparently the chip manufacturers have
been pushing the 4M ram chips and my memory suppliers have
switched over--instead of 9 1M chips, now I get 2 4M chips and a
1M chip. Of course, in the article I read, the 4M chips cost
little more than 1M chips and these SIMMs cost as much as the
last batch so gee, there's capitalism at work. Something on the
order of $30 bonus profit per SIMM... I think I want to sell
hardware instead of buy it ;-)

-dh

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