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[Jon L. Miller]

Why would one warehouse cause the increase? Do all the memory makers get
their memory from this warehouse, I think not, sounds more like the gas
conspiracy that caused prices to hit the ceiling in the states in the
early to mid 80's.  By doing this it gets people used to paying higher
prices and then it comes down a little and that is supposed to make
everyone feel at ease.
Bottom line it's greed that drives the prices up.

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On 9/23/99, at 12:08 PM, Chris Cornish wrote: 

>actually the prices have risen due to a fir e at one
>of legends main warehouses in south aust
>the second price rise was due NVRAM being released
>(totall incompatible with the existing PC100 SDRAM)
>and is currently only compatibale with the new AMD CPU
>called the athlon. But thats the way it go's and yes i
>do agree it dose suck
>
>--- "Jon L. Miller" <jlmiller at wantree.com.au> wrote:
>> Bill,
>> Memory has hit the roof, from what one source told
>> me the reason is a
>> group of folks in the states has decided that the
>> prices were too low and
>> decided to pull supplies and create a shortage
>> thereby driving the prices
>> up again.  However, another source told me the rise
>> is due to a new chip
>> called a ram bus and because this is going to be
>> expensive they want to
>> get everyone used to the high price tag.  Either way
>> it sucks.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> On 9/22/99, at 10:12 PM, Bill Cullen  wrote: 
>> 
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >Just went out and bought a new MB (ASUS P3B-F) to
>> run Linux
>> >and Solaris (I've been needing a new one for a
>> while and wanted
>> >to get in before the price rises after the
>> earthquake in Taiwan.
>> >I discovered when I got home that this card only
>> has 1 ISA slot
>> >(hmm, maybe I should have bought another ABIT
>> instead).
>> >
>> >I have a couple of ISA cards in the PC it's
>> replacing (running
>> >Slackware 1.0.9 from Oct 1994). So I need to decide
>> if I go
>> >out and buy a new network card or sound card. My
>> preference
>> >is for a new sound card (the soon to be turfed PC
>> currently has
>> >a Kingston NE2000 comp. combo card and a Pro Audio
>> Spectrum
>> >sound card with SCSI adaptor).
>> >
>> >Anyone have any recommendations on sound cards, I
>> know RTV are
>> >offering:
>> >
>> >Creative Sound Blaster Vibra 128 PCI -
>> $65**SPECIAL**
>> >Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 PCI - $65 
>> >Creative Sound Blaster LIVE! Retail Kit - $410
>> >Creative Sound Blaster LIVE! Value OEM - $140
>> >
>> >and $65 sounds about as high as I want to go at
>> this stage. Anyone
>> >have any comments on the above cards?
>> >
>> >I still have to buy a new processor - I was
>> thinking of waiting for
>> >the PIII 600's that have been rebadged as 450's to
>> hit our shores
>> >but I need to install Solaris this weekend.
>> >
>> >BTW: what happened to memory prices? I was going to
>> buy 64MB but
>> >now I think I'll move 32MB from another PC and wait
>> a couple of
>> >months for prices to come down again.
>> >
>> >Bill
>> >-- 
>>
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >  Bill Cullen, ENFP, billc at wantree.com.au, Perth,
>> Western Australia
>> >               Life's too important to take
>> seriously.
>>
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>> 
>> Jon L. Miller, MCNE ASE
>> MMT Networks Pty Ltd
>> Ph:+61.8.9402.0639
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>> 
>> 
>
>
>=====
>Chris Cornish
>linuxcw at yahoo.com.au 
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