Re: Help Identifying IIGS RAM Card

["Peter Watson" <paw77@N_O_hotmail_S_P_A_M.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message 
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> It was not unusual throughout the 1980s for DRAM prices to drop by
> a factor of three or four while retail prices for RAM cards stayed
> constant--a perfect inducement for cloning.
>
> And those who didn't buy clones bought minimally populated cards
> and added DRAM they bought themselves.
>
> In December, 1980, I bought my first Apple ][+ with 16K and within
> a week added another 32K purchased mailorder for $60!

At one point in the late 80's in Australia, Applied Engineering GS Ram cards 
were selling for around AUD$1200! After experimenting with a card for 
myself, I started buying unpopulated (minimally populated?) genuine AE cards 
from the USA and populating them with brand new chips sourced locally.

I was making about $100 per card and still selling them for only 
$600-$700!!!
-- 
Peter Watson
-- Write to MS-DOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
-- Impossible!  ;-)