Yes, I do remember those tools. We called them bitty-beasties growing
up, and they had other uses as well. We used them for things like
adjusting tiny bits on minatures, breaking the tips off crazy glue lids,
etc.
M
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Braver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 1:10 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: The Price is Right
Mine was one generation later - socketed.
Remember the little tools to compress the legs to
the correct angle for inserting without bending a pin?
Guess Clinton forgot to use one of those tools ;-)
-Ben
>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 $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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