Am I sitting on a goldmine?

[SteveDallas]

I don't know from Apples, but SIMM modules for Intel systems have been priced higher than you might expect for some time--a function of low demand and high manufacturing costs, I guess--you'd think at some point they'd start discounting them to dump inventory.

For example, until recently some of our faculty were using 133MHz Pentium systems purchased in 1997. A couple years ago, in an effort to squeeze a bit more usable life out of them, I paid $90 apiece for some 64MB SIMMs, and I thought it was a good price compared to others I found.

Meanwhile, I had just upgraded the DIMM memory in my home PC. I thought an upgrade from 32MB to 64MB would have me livin large. When I called to check prices, the guy I talked to at CDW said, "we don't stock 32's anymore, but we have a 64 for $65 and a 128 for $75." So yeah, $75 for 16MB of memory sounds like a ripoff for newer kinds of memory, but it may be par for the course if you're talking SIMMs.