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Yipes! $479.00 per 1 meg simm (sip?) I am a MAC person in
an IBM world - We also are about to move our old pdp 1170
UNIX dbms to SCO XENIX, so we got a Zenith 33 megahertz pc
w/ 320 meg hd and going to ethernet the office and
eventually the building... Anyway, they called me over to
show me one of the simms they got in, and it looked pretty
strange... they are 80 nanosecond, 12 chips altogether on a
simm board much like MAC simms, except that there were 6
chips on 2 rows, and the four chips in the middle of the
bottom row were quite a bit smaller than the others... I asked
how much they paid ( I think they got them from Zenith
cause then they say they only have to deal with one vendor),
and he said $479.00  !!!   YIPES !!! So anyway, I looked in a PC
week, and saw Zenith 386 simms (1 meg x 9) advertised for
$299, and called, and asked about the 12 chips (vs the MAC's
8 or the 9 on IBM sips), and the salesman said that in fact the
simm he had really had 12 chips on it... and couldn't explain
what the smaller chips were for... DOES ANY ONE KNOW WHAT
GIVES?? What are those extra chips for, and why so
expensive??   Wow, I can remember when I had to beg them
to buy me a 30 meg PEAK hd for $800 to go with my MAC
Plus... It seems the tables are turned in a sense, Now the
IBMers are getting ripped for their simms while MAC hd
prices continue to drop (not to mention simm prices)
Later,
Mark Sartor, 221 Ag Hall MSU Campus, E. Lansing MI, 48823 -
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