10-15-14 12:14 Alan Zisman wrote to TOM WALKER about Windows shutdown   
      
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    AZ> On 2014-10-15, 3:49 AM, TOM WALKER -> ED VANCE wrote:   
    AZ>>> Whether BG said that or not, let's put it in context - at the   
    AZ>>> time the IBM PC was released - with 64kb RAM as the default, I   
      
    EV>> Yep!, a lot of folks had 256KB or even 512KB of RAM.   
    EV>> I'd have to look for some of the old catalogs I used to get to see   
    EV>> how much Money 64KB or 128KB RAM modules costs back then.   
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    AZ> I bought a 386-20 motherboard in 1989 (I think), making me one   
    AZ> of the first folks I knew with a 386... that motherboard took   
    AZ> SIPP RAM - like SIMs but with a row of little pins on the   
    AZ> bottom that went into holes on the motherboard.   
      
    AZ> I paid $250 a MB for memory at that time... a few months later,   
    AZ> the price had dropped to $125/MB so I stocked up.   
      
   Howdy! Alan,   
      
   IIRC in February 1994 4MB RAM Modules sold for $135.00 USD.   
   That's $33.75 USD a MB.   
      
   I can't recall if that was the price before or after the Plastic   
   Factory in Japan that manufactured the plastic that memory IC's are   
   enclosed with was destroyed, which caused RAM prices to take a huge   
   leap upward in cost because the RAM Module supply became a limited   
   quantity for the retailers.   
      
   The RAM price and other computer electronic components now is tolerable   
   compared to the prices in 1994.   
      
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