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Date:      Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:42:58 -0500
From:      lists <lists@vivdev.com>
To:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Need a box, and your experience.
Message-ID:  <v04003a04b6e2e158280d@[192.168.1.100]>

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........[after reading the thread on RAM for the new used box]   How cheap?
I am looking at a pentium 90 mhz box at the moment - the main question is
the RAM - what kind of RAM do these things take, and how much $ am I going
to be looking at?  They still making this stuff?

>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
>
>
>
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thanks,

chris

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