[geeks] PPro Overdrive chips, anyone used them???

[Ken Hansen]

Man, what I paid for my first 16 Meg upgrade to my 486 back in the late 80's - it brings a tear to my eyes...

$200 for 4x 4 Meg 30 pin SIMMs...

(Ouch seems, somehow, woefully inadequate...)

But then, think I paid almost $1,500 for the original system, with 8 Meg of RAM & 486 DX/33 *with* 256K cache (cache was extra!) and a 14" monitor...

Until I got my Ultra 2 2x300, that was the most I ever spent on a computer - I can't imagine paying over $1K for any new machine these days... Unless, of course, it included an 18" TFT flat panel display ;^)

Ken


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Bradford [mailto:mrbill at mrbill.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 12:47 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] PPro Overdrive chips, anyone used them???


On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 12:37:23PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> To be honest, I still think those rules apply, of course the 32 Meg 
> RAM size could easily be upped to 128 or 256 Meg, only because RAM 
> is so cheap these days.

$38 for PC133 256meg now. (www.pricewatch.com).  Less than $100 for 512meg
DIMMs.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX
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