You must have been getting a deal. I bought 32 K of RAM for an old 8088
machine at almost $6 per K.

Hard to install too. It had to be soldered directly onto the
motherboard.

M

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Braver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 12:05 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: The Price is Right

Bret, back in the OLD days RAM was $1 per K !!!
And 640K was the maximum.
And WordPerfect fit on one floppy!
<sigh>
-Ben

>Haggerty, Mike wrote:
>
>> I remember saving all summer for a 15 MB Hard Drive and paying
something
>> like $300. This was like 15 years ago. Just blows my mind when I see
>> things like this.
>
>I know, I remember when I got my first powermac in about '96 and it was

>like $600 for an extra 64 MB of RAM. I just recently bought 1 GB of RAM

>for like $170.
>
>Not that I'm complaining or anything!
>
>-Bret
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