13 Mar
1998
13 Mar
'98
2:06 p.m.
At 12:52 3/13/98 -0600, David wrote:
256K DRAMs bring back all sorts of bad memories. We
used to sell 384K
expansions for the PCjr....Not only were they hell to populate, but when
the DRAM prices went through the roof, we were only selling a few at ~$300
a pop.
The thing about those Everex 3MB XMS cards was, I actually did several of
them (groan) with DRAM I'd stocked up on. At the worst of the RAM spike,
the best price I could have gotten on 256K DRAM was US$12.45 per chip.
Which made those d**n Everex cards worth, nominally, over $1300 each....
but we just gritted our teeth, because a 9-chip 1MB 30-pin SIMM was $595!
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