[A6] Re: PCMCIA memory cards

[Chris Pickett]

I must say, $18 is a big price jump!!!  I guess they figure they have 
the market cornered.

vespine at netspace.net.au wrote:

>Quoting Chris Pickett <chris.pickett at mail.mcgill.ca>:
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>>EdgeOfDawn at uboot.com wrote:
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>>>Hello Mark,
>>>thanks a lot for your tips ! 
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>>>>the cheapest i have found on the web (also very low shipping costs for
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>>single items!)
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>>>http://www.timasci.com/sram.htm 
>>>they sell the Pretec 2 MB SRAM Card SN5002-P @ 79.99 
>>>(that's 10$ over what i paid a year ago btw)
>>>the ones without "Attribute Memory" will do just fine <
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>>I got it for under $65 a few months ago.  Ask them for a lower price 
>>(like $70).  I can't believe freakin' 2 Mb of memory costs this much.
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>I just bought one a week ago, I haven't got it yet, should be soon(I'm in 
>Australia). They actually ran out of stock of the "non-attribue" type but 
>offered me an "attribute" type (usually slightly more expensive) for the same 
>price, I have an invoice dated 8/13/2003 for US$61.99, if they are quoting more 
>maybe they just raised their price, in which case: lucky me:-)
>Also, I took a chance before and bought an old 16MB PCIMCIA card for $10 from a 
>swapmeet and it didn't even fit in the slot, so unfortunately we get shafted 
>for the "special" SRAM 2MB!! I wonder how hard would it have been to just pack 
>the A6 with an extra 2MB internally? Would have made a lot more sense I reckon.
>Cheers!
>-&e.
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