Bill Canaday wrote:
>I was going through some old paperwork today and just now stumbled across an
>old invoice
>
>In December of 1992, I ordered 2, 4 meg sticks of 70ns ram from Discount Micro
>in Los Alamitos, CA. I paid $124 each for a total price of $248 for a total
>of 8 mB of ram.
>
>At DCI, you can get an Athlon 2400, mobo, 256mB of DDR ram, case and power
>supply for about $250. SOME things, at least, have kept pace with my wages.
>
>
Cool! Of course, I've got to add my own wayback story...
Somewhere around 1986/87 I purchased 2M of memory in chip form for
about the same price. By chip form I mean I bought 16 ICs and a circuit
board containing a bunch of sockets. It took a day to install all the
chips and rig the MMU on that Atari 520ST to see the new memory. After
it was done, I had a 2.5M machine. The memory was so huge that I would
allocate 1M as a RAM disk because no program needed anywhere near that
much memory.
A couple weeks ago I put together an Athlon 2500+ machine with 1.5G of
RAM, 80G HD, 128M video card. Cost was probably about the same as the
original 520ST and the two SF314 floppy drives.
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