Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:41:06 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Need a box, and your experience. Message-ID: <00b301c0b481$38f84730$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <002d01c0b47e$ae898160$0e00000a@tomcat> <13138135308.20010324113950@nc.rr.com>
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I think I still have a copy of the dealer price quote I got in '95 when I was building a 486DX2-66 server. I wanted 16MB, and the dealer laughed in my face. (This was right after Taiwan exploded). RAM was going for $250 per 4MB stick -- the 30 pin kind! I kinda paled at the thought of paying $1000 for 16MB, and held off for a few months until prices became more "reasonable". -- Matt > Still though, > > Back in 1996 when I purchased a whopping 32MB for my IBM 486DX33 it > was $250. Now I can get the good stuff from Crucial for my A7V > http://www.crucial.com/store/PartSpecs.asp?imodule=CT32M64S4D7E > for $95. And only 3 months ago it was $150. Free Shipping too! > > -Neill > > Saturday, March 24, 2001, 11:22:55 AM, Andrew Hornback wrote: > ACH> And as for memory being cheap, as I found out yesterday when I ordered > ACH> another stick for one of my workstations, the really cheap RAM is stuff > ACH> specific to VIA chipsets. Thought I'd found a 256 Meg stick for $44... > ACH> turns out it was closer to twice that after I got gouged for shipping. > > ACH> --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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