From: danodom@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Dan Odom) Subject: Re: Are any SIMMs cheap these day$ ? Date: 4 Aug 1993 01:40:52 -0500
rkwee@ursula.ee.pdx.edu (Roland Kwee) writes:
>About the RAM prices: curiously, videoboards with 1 MB can still
>be had for 65 dollar, which is less than 1 MB of SIMMS.... I have
>heard that there is no RAM shortage and that the prices are only
>high because of speculation after a glue plant burnt down.
The video boards don't use SIMMs, and a SIMM is _much_ more expensive
than just straight RAM chips. I don't know about bulk pricing or
what prices are after the plant fire (epoxy plant is what I heard. It
makes the black epoxy used for DIP casings), but at the beginning of
the summer 1 MB was about 5 bucks.
-- Dan Odom danodom@matt.ksu.ksu.edu -- Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS