From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 24 8:43:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33CD437B718 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 08:43:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.3) with SMTP id f2OGff504111 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:41:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <00b301c0b481$38f84730$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <002d01c0b47e$ae898160$0e00000a@tomcat> <13138135308.20010324113950@nc.rr.com> Subject: Re: Need a box, and your experience. Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:41:06 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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