Paul, at 22:44 on May 15 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BL>   I admit to being amazed that Goldstar has been diffusing DRAM for
BL> the last 5 years... 1991? Amazing! And to think they weren't even
BL> making VCRs then and were buuying all their ICs from Toshiba.

PE> I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not.  Did you find out
PE> yourself that it is 5 years?  No-one has verified that one way
PE> or the other.

BG> Goldstar have been making VCRs since at least 1988-89 (sorry Bob).  Mind 
BG> you, the first ones were so bad, that there are very few left in service 
BG> today.

PE> But how long have they been making RAM for?  

Dunno, but my old 386DX33 used 8x256Kb Goldstar SIMMs, and I bought that
back in 1991,  6 months later, I upgraded to 8x1Mb SIMMs, and those were
made by Mitsubishi and Panasonic (4 of each).  My 4x4Mb SIMMs were also
Panasonics, although I have no idea who made my current 2x16Mb 72-pin
modules.

Regards, Bill

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