Yeah, I'm remembering now that my $100 1 MB RAM upgrade probably didn't come through legit channels... a friend of the spousal unit made it happen...
Judy On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, jeffrey reynolds wrote: > I remember getting my 2mb upgrade for my SE to go to 2.5mb in 1988. > it cost $350 through the berkeley education program (i was a grad > student then). it was right when there was that short, but big, > memory price spike (i think it was a fake shortage thing by some > overseas suppliers) and when the chips were delivered the street > price on them was up over $1000. as i walked out of the campus office > where i picked up the little package with the simms, there were > literally about a dozen professors in the hall outside trying to buy > simms off folks since they were very hard to get. I could have made a > fast $500-600 profit if i had been willing to part with them then > bought them a couple of months later for like $250. being the > lifetime propeller head i am i resisted. that was a month of grad > student pay! _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
