tanaquil
Well-known member
>>I have yet to find a quote that would put the price close to what people would be willing to pay.
Coming late to this topic, but I was searching around for IIfx threads since I recently resurrected my IIfx from storage (it has 20 MB of RAM).
If by SIMM you mean $35/stick (sorry for my highly unscientific language), that pricing doesn't actually sound that bad to me. For comparison, 4 MB SIMMs for the IIfx seem to be selling for about $25 each, but since I haven't seen any sources for any higher capacity SIMMs available, the only way for me to get over 32 MB would be to buy two SIMMDoubler boards (about $120 each), then buy all the extra 4 MB SIMMs to go in them (I have 4 now, so say $100 x 3)... now my mental math is up to $540, and that would only get me to a total capacity of 64 MB anyway. At that point, even $50/each for 8 16 MB SIMMs (=$400) isn't looking so bad. Think about what these things would have cost back in the day!
Or am I totally misunderstanding your post? Or lacking in understanding of some other aspect of the market? I'm pretty new to this stuff.
I don't know if I could dig deep enough into my pockets to max out the IIfx at one go at the rate of ~$35/per (maybe I'd have to settle for 4x), but a kickstarter or the like might be a good way of gauging how much people would be willing to pay for a single SIMM.
Coming late to this topic, but I was searching around for IIfx threads since I recently resurrected my IIfx from storage (it has 20 MB of RAM).
If by SIMM you mean $35/stick (sorry for my highly unscientific language), that pricing doesn't actually sound that bad to me. For comparison, 4 MB SIMMs for the IIfx seem to be selling for about $25 each, but since I haven't seen any sources for any higher capacity SIMMs available, the only way for me to get over 32 MB would be to buy two SIMMDoubler boards (about $120 each), then buy all the extra 4 MB SIMMs to go in them (I have 4 now, so say $100 x 3)... now my mental math is up to $540, and that would only get me to a total capacity of 64 MB anyway. At that point, even $50/each for 8 16 MB SIMMs (=$400) isn't looking so bad. Think about what these things would have cost back in the day!
Or am I totally misunderstanding your post? Or lacking in understanding of some other aspect of the market? I'm pretty new to this stuff.
I don't know if I could dig deep enough into my pockets to max out the IIfx at one go at the rate of ~$35/per (maybe I'd have to settle for 4x), but a kickstarter or the like might be a good way of gauging how much people would be willing to pay for a single SIMM.
