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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!nntp04.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!mcsun!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Are memory prices going up??? Date: 29 Aug 1996 23:19:47 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 34 Message-ID: <505523$g1@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <32255CD3.41C67EA6@bnr.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Andrew Atrens (atrens@bnr.ca) wrote: : Hi All, : In my part of the world ( Ottawa, Canada ) memory prices are *very* : low: 16MB/EDO/60ns/72pin are selling new for as low as $ 130.00 (Can). : Last year I would have been lucky to find a non-EDO 16MB SIMM for under : $700 (Can). : So does anyone know: : * why prices are as low as they are. : * when, if ever, they will go up. : Sales people I talk to say that memory prices are going up in September : but its their job to say that. : I'm sure that there's an interesting story here... The (previous) problem with SIMMs was that they had a high fatality rate. About 1 in 4 SIMMs were bad (difficult to produce for some reason) and as a result, buying one SIMM cost four or more times the "should be" cost. Some bright spark then came up with the idea of building in some redundancy into the SIMM along with a bit of intelligence - similar to SCSI disks reserving some blocks at the end for relocating bad blocks. Now, all the "old" memory has been sold and everyone is getting the benefit of this guys idea. I'm sure someone else can be more specific - that's all the detail I know. I don't believe that prices are gonna up again. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....