Talk about jumping the gun – the machines aren’t even announced for another three weeks, but Hopkinton, Massachusetts-based Clearpoint Research Corp reckons that there are potential users out there that already realise that they ordered too little memory for the things and want to be prepared by having add-on memory ready and waiting on site: the company has announced its first family of memory upgrades for Digital Equipment Corp’s new Alpha APX-based (shouldn’t that be Alpha AXP – when you’re busting someone’s embargo, it’s as well to get the name right) DEC/3000 systems – now that is a name new to us, but is it right? Aggressively priced and shipping immediately, the new DCME-A15 memory upgrades are available in 32Mb and 64Mb capacities says the company, adding that they go straight into the DEC/3000 Model 500/500S deskside Flamingo and Model 400/400S desktop Sandpiper systems and run under all available Alpha operating systems; it says that future versions using 16M-bit chips rather than the present 4Ms will enable DEC/3000 Model 400/S and Model 500/S systems to address 512Mb bytes and 1Gb main memory respectively; they are out now at $4,800 for 32Mb, $7,800 for 64Mb.
