[olug] Memory Question

[Phil Brutsche]

On Wed, 2001-09-12 at 11:24, Mike Peterson wrote:
> They used to make 16MB and 32MB SDRAM.
> Many vendors used to ship system with it installed.
> Or is it only available with a new system and not
> after market purchases.

Most new systems come with either a pair of 64s or a 128 :)

There are 2 things, I think, that caused the demise of the 16 & 32 MB
sticks:

1) Demand - as prices come down, who wants to get a 32 MB stick when a
128 MB stick is $20 or less?
2) Cost of manufacturing the things - at some point it probably came to
cost just as much to make a 32 as it does to make a 64.

> When did they stop making it?

I don't know - it was sometime this year.

-- 

Phil


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