my worst was in 1988, I bought a 3rd party memory chip for a DEC Microvax II because DEC wanted $14,000 USD for it. The 3rd party vendor only wanted $7,000. It was an 8mb memory card. I boosted the memory for the MicroVAX II from 4MB to 12MB. It serviced 12 people, 4 automated robotic systems, and 5 printers. the memory card was roughly the size of an old record album sleeve, and about 3/4 of an inch thick; over 2x the size and weight of my current laptop (with 1GB of memory and a 320GB drive: $360)
That same year in 1988 I paid $300 for a 40mb scuzzy drive for my 286 pc (well I paid $1200 for the 1mb pc with the 40mb drive.) And that was 1988 dollars, not 2010 dollars. I had to save for a year to get that $1200. That's the equivalent buying power to around $4000-$5000 today. --- On Sun, 4/11/10, Bones <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bones <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Papermodels II 42406] External harddisk. To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, April 11, 2010, 8:48 PM -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Papermodels II 42405] External harddisk. Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:38:51 EDT In a message dated 4/11/10 1:03:08 PM, [email protected] writes: > And to think I actually spend $250 for a 250 meg hard drive back in > '1996 and though I was getting a good deal. I remember when a 40 MEG (Mb not Gb) hard drive was AU$600...back in the dark dim days of the 8086 processor when standard HDD was 20 Mb. Bones -- ================================================================= Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/papermodels?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/papermodels?hl=en.
