Subj : Re: The Joy of Mags
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Nov 03 2025 06:57:43

-=> Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Ni> :)  PCs have gotten so much cheaper since then.  And I seem to recall
 Ni> RAM being about $100 or so per megabyte in the early 90s(?) - which
 Ni> seems hard to believe now.

I remember PC "swap meets" back in the late '80s, they seemed mostly run
by PC shops that were selling off used equipment. I bought 2 MB of DIP
RAM for my motherboard, don't remember how much it was but I was poor,
couldn't have been too expensive.

Then, work tossed out a couple of PCs that ended up the back of my car -
one of them had an 8mb AST "aboveboard" with a socketed UART serial
port, parallel port and memory. What to do with all that memory?


 
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