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General Category => LisaList2 => Topic started by: bmwcyclist on March 15, 2025, 11:30:53 am

Title: Off the wall question... Retail price for a 512K Lisa memory board in 1982?
Post by: bmwcyclist on March 15, 2025, 11:30:53 am
Does anyone know the retail price for a 512K Lisa memory board in 1982?

Or even the AST board?

I plan on displaying my spare board when I show off the Lisa at local club events, and thought it might be neat to show the card and the price at the time.
Title: Re: Off the wall question... Retail price for a 512K Lisa memory board in 1982?
Post by: Lisa2 on March 15, 2025, 12:26:57 pm
Sun Remarketing was selling the RAMSTACK board for $799 in 1988:

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/lisa/sun_remarketing/Sun_Remarketing_Catalog_Summer_1988.pdf (https://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/lisa/sun_remarketing/Sun_Remarketing_Catalog_Summer_1988.pdf)

Understand that this was 4 years later and SunRem prices were much lower than the original retail. 
Title: Re: Off the wall question... Retail price for a 512K Lisa memory board in 1982?
Post by: bmwcyclist on March 15, 2025, 12:32:17 pm
Sun Remarketing was sell the RAMSTACK board for $799 in 1988:

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/lisa/sun_remarketing/Sun_Remarketing_Catalog_Summer_1988.pdf (https://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/lisa/sun_remarketing/Sun_Remarketing_Catalog_Summer_1988.pdf)

Understand that this was 4 years later and SunRem prices were much lower than the original retail.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Off the wall question... Retail price for a 512K Lisa memory board in 1982?
Post by: sigma7 on March 15, 2025, 04:54:01 pm
More data...

"The LisaTalk Report" Sample issue (dunno how many there were)
has a letter/article AST RamSTak by Richard Hart August 1, 1985 showing
0.5 MB $895
1.0 MB $1495
1.5 MB $2095
2.0 MB $2695
 
I have a letter from DaFax, postmarked 25 Oct 1985, that gives the above as list prices, and these DaFax prices:
0.5 MB $695
1.0 MB $895
1.5 MB $1095
2.0 MB $1295

Sun Remarketing Fall 1987 catalog
AST RamStak 1.5 MB $599
Apple 0.5 MB $300
Title: Re: Off the wall question... Retail price for a 512K Lisa memory board in 1982?
Post by: bmwcyclist on March 15, 2025, 05:21:11 pm
More data...


Very cool! Thank you!