Re: Rarity and Pricing

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net>]

Yeah, Apple was raping their customers on RAM pricing. Yet another example
of Apple's boundless arrogance in those days. You will recall that you could
buy third-party mail-order 48K Apples for a LOT less money than Apple
charged for the same configuration, until Apple managed to cut off their
supply lines.

Tom Zuchowski

"Quadrajet1" <quadrajet1@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >There are further rarities in the Apple ][ category. Revision 1-6 of this
> >motherboard had jumper blocks on the motherboard RAM rows so that you
could
> >configure it to use 4K or 16K RAM chips (16K RAM was quite expensive back
> >then, running about $50 per chip.)
>
>    Apple's price on a bank of eight 16K RAM chips was $600.  I have
several of
> these upgrade kits still, and somewhere I think I have still factory
sealed.
>
> Raymond