Re: [Thinkpad] Glacial A30

With the .1% being all the IBM T and A series that are PC100 only!
----- Original Message -----
From: "RayBay" <canyonlands@gmail.com>
To: "Jonathan Berry" <jberry@islandnet.com>
Cc: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Glacial A30

> In at least 99.9 percent of computers, PC133 will work in a PC100 computer
> and it is usually better memory.
>
> As for the Presario 192, I have never seen one, and don't have one in my
> Compaq Service Manual... They show 1923, 1920, 1902, 292, 182, 199, and
> 092. Tell us more.
>
>
> As for the memory, I did a quick survey of the 12 suppliers we use for new
> memory:
>
> Average price for 128 mb modules: 13.99 Desktop memory
> Average price for 256 mb modules: 27.99 Desktop memory
> Nothing is sold larger than that, as of course you know.
>
>
> Average Prices for Laptop Memory:
>
> 128 MB $29.99 was $11.99
> 256 MB $42.99 was $23.99
> 512 MB $83.99.... this average has gone up from $53.49 in November 2007
>
> An announcement in the financial pages of the New York Times on Sunday
> reported that the huge backlog of PC133 memory was no longer a backlog as
of
> March 29th.
>
>
> We still have such a backlog of PC133 that we sell 256 mb for $15.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Jonathan Berry <jberry@islandnet.com>
wrote:
>
> > >PC133 is expensive,
> >
> > I was given an old Compaq Presario with 192 MB RAM and would
> > like to add 256 MB or more RAM to make it run faster than
> > molasses, for my wife's mom.
> >
> > The reasonable retail value of this computer is $50 tops
> >
> > Buying new PC100, 168-pin, Low Density SDRAM, 256 MB stick
> > is $30 to $50 by mail order, or $60 from a local shop.
> > Actually, the local shop is trying to sell me PC133, saying
> > that it will drop back down to PC100, but I don't think it is
> > low density.
> >
> > Anyway, that's the rub in keeping older computers out of
> > landfills. Even if they're built to run a reasonable array of
> > RAM, fitting them out with it often costs more than the
> > computer is worth. By comparison, bumping your current desktop
> > from 1 GB to 2 GB is $50 or less.
> >
> > I don't mind used RAM, but nobody locally seems to be doing
> > that. Yah, yah, there's always ebay!
> >
> >
> > >but not nearly as expensive as it is going to be. They
> > >are no longer making it, and all the known suppliers are down to
> > manageable
> > >stock, so they intend to make some real bucks now.
> >
>
>
> A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour,
> tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.
>
> Cicero 47BC
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