Since I'm not a lawyer (thank God!), I'll leave the contractual nuances and
obligations to you all to consider, but we've upgraded RAM in some of our
Sun workstations by buying them direct. Our boxes didn't self-destruct.
A reliable source (which was recommended here a while ago) is MemoryX. I
have no connection with it other than being a satisfied customer. For the
B-style boxes, check these pages out:
Memory for Sparc5:
http://www.memoryx.net/sparc5.html
House-brand memory:
http://www.memoryx.net/ss532.html
Sun-manufactured memory:
http://www.memoryx.net/5012471.html
http://www.memoryx.net/5953346.html
For the D/E-style boxes, start here:
http://www.memoryx.net/memx/ultrasparc1.html
Hope this helps.
Duc
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Duc M. Do
Dow Corning Corp.
Carrollton Plant
Carrollton, KY, US
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From: Airhart, Chad M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 11:56 AM
To: 'Foxboro DCS Mail List'
Subject: RE: RAM
Speaking of RAM. We just got an estimate for how much Foxboro would charge
to upgrade our 4 WP's and 1 AW to 256 MB of RAM. It was on the order of
$20K plus. We all know materials is 1/20 of the total installed cost. My
question is since RAM is readily available what would Foxboro's stance be if
we upgraded ourselves? We have a service agreement with them. Would it be
all bets are off or would RAM problems be unsupported or would all future
problems be blamed on RAM? Maybe I shouldn't ask but I find this cost
ridiculous. It would be a tremendous performance boost but I can't justify
it as a stand alone upgrade. We are going to have to tie it to a software
upgrade to capitalize it.
Chad Airhart
Senior Instrument, Electrical Control Systems Engineer
Equistar Chemicals, LP.
Victoria, TX
Wk. (361) 572-2568
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