Re: Memory prices

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Joe Pluta wrote:
> I just find it astounding that PC memory has simply plummeted in price.  
> You can now get 4GB of DDR2 memory for $89.  And that's relatively fast 
> memory - 800MHz.  Usually you can tweak that up a little bit and end up 
> with some really screaming numbers (I used 800MHz memory and overclocked 
> my machine to 3GHz on the CPU and 900MHz on the memory, and it's just.. 
> fast, man, really fast <grin>).

Yeah, and I bought a few Lexar USB jump-drives a few years ago and 
have them in the office, at home, various convenient locations. 
(They were cheap. But they keep working.) And I carry a 2GB chip in 
my business-card holder wherever I go; used to be a diskette when 
they got down to shirt-pocket size. Can't recall my last use of a 
diskette.

Sure beats boxes of punch-cards, eh?

As for memory, the big problem I keep having is that my pile of old 
memory SIMMs/DIMMs keeps growing. I hate not having a use for them. 
Almost makes me irritated that new ones are so cheap.

Tom Liotta