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In <1062@runx.ips.oz>, clubmac@runx.ips.oz (Macintosh Users Group) said:  

>We a looking into offering memory upgrade services to our members, and need
>to know the suppliers/prices of 120 nanosecond 1-MegaBit SIMMs, for use in
>Mac+'s, SE's and II's.

I too have been looking into pricing of these beasties, in hopes of
a) upgrading my II to give it more than the 1 Meg it came with, and b) to
see if I could provide customers with pricing better than what Dove and
Co. are charging.

Unforunately, it appears I was just a few weeks too late.  From my 
investigations, I discovered that the price of 1 Megabit chips has risen
from about $15/chip to well over $25/chip (with some suppliers charging
over $30/chip) over the last 3 weeks.  Although SIMM prices haven't risen
by the same ratio, I expect they will shortly (as the current set gets
flushed out of the Japan pipeline).  Right now, the lowest price I got on
a 1 Megabyte SIMM strip was well over $200/strip (whith many places charging 
over $300/strip).

With these high prices, I thought I'd look into making 256K chip bannana 
board SIMMS (32 256K chips on a SIMM), but pricing of those worked out to be 
around $150/SIMM for parts--not enough under the current prices to be worth 
it, and with a fair number of engineering problems that'd have to be 
worked out.


At this point, my suggestion is to wait a while, and hope that prices go
down (and perhaps write to your Congressman re: trade barriers with Japan)
(unless $300+/SIMM board isn't too onerous an expense for you).


Peter "all chip-ed out" Korn
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Peter "Arrgh" Korn
korn@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
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