Re: [SLUG] Historical prices

From: Bill Canaday (bill13510@wwnet.net)
Date: Sat May 08 2004 - 23:45:51 EDT


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On Saturday 08 May 2004 09:58 pm, you wrote:
> 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.

Just today I was getting some hardware together to give away and came across
an Everex 2M EMM board and a coffee can of chips for it. I can remember
driving all the way across Detroit to get the chips in a plastic tube thingy
from a friend of a friend who had a shop in his basement. IIRC, that board
went into my XT ... which had a juiced up 7 mHz CPU (or was that a 10 mHz?
... it's been a LONG time!). Seems like the XT CPU came in 4.77 and 7 mHz but
you could buy an aftermarket CPU that ran at 10 mHz. Of course, in my quest
for speed, I had the matching 8087 math co-processor chip.

That gave me a fast CPU and enough ram for a ram disk. I used batch files to
load and unload my programs so that everything ran from the ram disk every
time even though I had an absolutely huge 40 mB Seagate HD. It had a flip-top
case that I dearly hated to leave behind when the newer motherboards and
power supplies would no longer fit in it.

I have kept that hardware up until today. Up until today, I couldn't bear to
part with it. But it's time to move on.

Bill
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