From: Robert Dewar (dewar_at_SCHONBERG.CS.NYU.EDU)
Date: Fri Jan 07 1994 - 16:27:05 EST
When Bruce says that he would find $700 "reasonable" for a 16 meg card, he
is using the $50/meg price that we tend to have in mind for volume commodity
memory. THe trouble is that 16 meg credit cards are pushing the top end of
what is available, and you always tend to pay more (just like 32 meg SIMS
cost more than four times 8 meg SIMS). I paid $1500 for a 16 meg board
about four months ago, and I thought that "reasonable" at the time (I
remember paying several hundred dollars for a 1 meg credit card for my
Poqet a few years ago :-)
Anyway, it certainly is the case that prices for these cards will come
down as time goes on, and they reposition themselves in the mainstream
of commodity memory (then we will be complaining about the price of
32 meg and 64 meg cards, and wondering if they will work in a TP750 --
I still haven't got the answer to this yet!)
So I guess a useful general service in this mailing group is if someone
would post memory prices (and accessory prices in general) every now
and then (for instance, I am sure the mono 750 owners will be interested
in watching for the price of the 750C upgrade to come down!)
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