From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Mar 24 15:43: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D5CB37B718 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 15:43:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@vivdev.com) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (dhcp043-10-151-24.nt01-c5.cpe.charter-ne.com [24.151.10.43]) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA24577 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 15:43:02 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: lists@vivdev.com (Unverified) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:42:58 -0500 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: lists Subject: Re: Need a box, and your experience. Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ........[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 > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message thanks, chris lists@vivdev.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message