1969? I doubt that 5k was a 'chip'.. more like a 'board'.... ;)
Peter Andrews wrote:
>1969 I sold our colour TV to buy a 5k chip for $800. the average weekly
>wage was $75.00 No wonder my girlfriend left!
>
>PeterA
>
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>[mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net]On Behalf Of Sushi
>Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 10:28 PM
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>Subject: [NTLK] [OT] Most expensive memory...
>
>
>Just for fun, what is the most expensive memory that you've purchased?
>
>Mine was a 96K (3x32K) module for $995. Got it on sale. Regular price
>was $1,295.
>
>Let's see, at $995, that's about 96 bytes per dollar, or about 1 penny
>per byte.
>
>...at $1,295, that's about 74 bytes per dollar, or about 1.3 pennies per
>byte.
>
>Shoot, that makes those 32MB SIMs in the early 90's for $3,200 look
>pretty darn reasonable.
>
>They were 10K bytes per dollar, or 1/100 of a penny per byte.
>
>Sushi
>
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