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To: tech101 who wrote (315)	7/21/1999 9:45:00 PM
From: tech101	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1056

When supply gets tight, any bizarre things could happen. If memory serves me well, about 4 years ago, a chip packaging material company in Japan was on fire, and paused production for a few days. The RAM chips price surged right away to $50 for one MB (and now it is priced at about 50 cent). Similar thing happened a couple of months ago in the San Francisco Bay area when oil price got higher and higher. An explosion occurred in a gas refinery factory owned by Chevron but without any personnel injury (some people even suspect this is a …). Guess what, gas price arises to more than $2.00 at some gas stations in the SF Bay area the next day.