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From: dave@bgtys6.uucp (Dave Hubert)
Subject: Re: RAM cards
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.221048.7124@bigsur.uucp>
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Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
References: <1991Mar18.104224@ee.ubc.ca>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 91 22:10:48 GMT

In article <1991Mar18.104224@ee.ubc.ca> jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca writes:
>OK, I'm starting to get tempted by cheap EPSON, Smith Corona type RAM cards.
>Any good places to buy these? I'm up in Canada, so even if I could FIND them,
>there'd still be an obscene amount of tax and markup on them. So where should
>I get one. I don't feel like driving to Seattle, so Blaine would be ok,
>or Bellingham,
>or Point Roberts would be great.
>
>jpm

Up here, in Canada, you can get 32K smith corona cards for $32.  Thanks alot 
to jcohen@scarecrow for your post.  I did the same thing.  I let my fingers do
some walking through the yellow pages under typewritters, and low and behold,
there were 3 Smith Corona dealers here in Ottawa.  I phoned up one, and asked
if they carried the smith-corona part number S75531 and amazingly enough they
said yes...WOW!  

I went down to the store and got pretty much the same reaction as did jcohen
when I asked the guy if I could try one of the cards... the guy kind of looked
at me really strangely. After some explaining, I put the card in and got a low
battery card warning.  OOps.. forgot the battery.  After putting in the battery
I typed merge 1 and voila...52k memory--> obviously worked because the calc's
only got 32.  

I was so happy I even bought 2 cards.  Tried the second card too and it worked
like a charm. Bumped up the memory to about 84k..can't remember.

After 8% provincial and 7% gst it came to $75.  Not bad. Not bad at 
all considering HP sells their cards here at Wilson's and Compucenter
for about $100.  What a rip-off!  I could have bought 3 cards for
what HP sells theirs for. Would you believe the 128K HP ram card goes
for $320.  That's almost what I paid for the calc itself!  No flames, I'm
just a poor student trying to work my way through university.

You know, I even got to play with all those little toys under the memory menu
that you can't unless you got a card.  I'm tickled pink.  I even archived
my home directory on one of the cards, took the card out and put it back in.
Amazing. The archive was still there. I'm tickled pink.

Spread the good news.  This isn't a myth.  They do exist in CANADA.

P.S. jpm: If you can't find a smith-corona dealer in BC, here's the address for
the place I got mine. I doubt you need it, but here it is anyways. Let me here
how it works out.

Keith's Buisness Equipment Ltd.
2605 Carling Ave.
Ottawa, Ont.
Canada.
1-(613)-820-5200
