Getting bent (ON topic if not thread)

I used to populate the XMS cards with 256K DRAM as well, largest being 2MB (72 chips). As I recall, the 256K DRAM dips were down to about $2.50~$3.50 a pop when our benevolent Congress stepped in to help us and the price rose to the $12.00+ range. I was impressed. We had orders to fill and were being burned bad.... those weren't the days. Marty Mintzell ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: Getting bent (ON topic if not thread) Author: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu at internet Date: 3/13/98 3:17 PM At 12:52 3/13/98 -0600, David wrote: 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! __________________________________________ Kip Crosby engine(a)chac.org http://www.chac.org/index.html Computer History Association of California ------ Message Header Follows ------ Received: from lists2.u.washington.edu by smtp.itgonline.com (PostalUnion/SMTP(tm) v2.1.9i(b5) for Windows NT(tm)) id AA-1998Mar13.151714.1767.31564; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 15:17:17 -0500 Received: from host (lists.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.13]) by lists2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with SMTP id MAA16957; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 12:09:44 -0800 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id MAA19848 for <classiccmp(a)lists.u.washington.edu>du>; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 12:09:27 -0800 Received: from relay.batnet.com (relay1.batnet.com [204.188.144.18]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.09) with SMTP id MAA28221 for <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>du>; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 12:09:26 -0800 Received: from goldrush by relay.batnet.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA13871; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 12:08:49 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980313120654.00f77620(a)pop.batnet.com> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 12:06:54 -0800 Reply-To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu Sender: CLASSICCMP-owner(a)u.washington.edu Precedence: bulk From: Kip Crosby <engine(a)chac.org> To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Getting bent (ON topic if not thread) In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980313125240.008fd8e0(a)pop3.webzone.net> References: <3.0.5.32.19980313102815.00f64130(a)pop.batnet.com> <9803131239.ZM19878(a)indy.dunnington.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: chac(a)pop.batnet.com X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN