What did the little 512k memory upgrade modules used to cost for the Amiga 500?
I think I dropped about $150 on that. We still tease my friend who bought the Amiga 500 from me. He was into 3d animation and spent $3200 on a 32 meg memory module.
I love chatting about old technology, and that's probably why I keep a bunch of old junk around. But I didn't buy a computer, much less any electronic gizmos, until about 2000.
However, I did put some analog "memory" into a 2003 project, which cost about $1.50 in parts and provided, I suppose, the equivalent of 16 or maybe 32 bits.
I know it's not memory but you didn't buy memory, which would've been core, in 1969.
I bought a 1MB hard drive cartridge for $100. (For anyone who remembers DEC, it was an RK01 cartridge. It was the same cartridge as that used in an IBM 1130.) I was the first person to buy one, according to the DEC salesperson.
This was a cartridge that you loaded into a disk drive. It was, if I remember correctly, about 14 inches in diameter.
The first computer I ever really played with (besides installing ram) had 32 MB of ram standard which was approximately half the size of the hard drive on my first computer...
The first computer I ever really played with (besides installing ram) had 32 MB of ram standard which was approximately half the size of the hard drive on my first computer...
Wouldn't it be nice if that ratio was true today...
16 kilobyte module for TIMEX Sinclair 100 ran me (a hard-working high-schooler) a whopping $50!! or ~$3100/Mb back in what, '83?
Then maxxed out my Mac Plus to 4Mb for about $250 in '90 or so.. .
I had a friend who had a Timex Sinclair 1000 around then (1983? 84?) Man. That thing was awesome. We couldn't understand why, when my TI-99/4A modem called his house, his computer didn't answer and say something like "would you like to play a game?"
I was only ever moderately successful at being able to write to or read from cassette tapes - I think that frustration led to my eventual mothballing the Sinclair for nearly 24 years. I pulled it out this past summer, dusted off the req'd video adapters & cables, and it booted right up. Unfortunately, it (along with the Mac Plus & its 40Mb extHD) was part of the Great-Make-Room-for-Baby-Purge of '06.
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I think I dropped about $150 on that. We still tease my friend who bought the Amiga 500 from me. He was into 3d animation and spent $3200 on a 32 meg memory module.
Nick
I can only go back to 1993 or so, Quadra 840AV, 32MB, $1K+/module.
However, I did put some analog "memory" into a 2003 project, which cost about $1.50 in parts and provided, I suppose, the equivalent of 16 or maybe 32 bits.
so. . . $1.50 / 4 bytes = $393216 per MB
1991 4mb ~$250...
Heh. I bought a 16MB strip of RAM in about 1996 for $300. I think I still have the "giant" 10 GB hard drive I bought for multitrack recording.
I bought a 1MB hard drive cartridge for $100. (For anyone who remembers DEC, it was an RK01 cartridge. It was the same cartridge as that used in an IBM 1130.) I was the first person to buy one, according to the DEC salesperson.
This was a cartridge that you loaded into a disk drive. It was, if I remember correctly, about 14 inches in diameter.
The first computer I ever really played with (besides installing ram) had 32 MB of ram standard which was approximately half the size of the hard drive on my first computer...
Wouldn't it be nice if that ratio was true today...
Then maxxed out my Mac Plus to 4Mb for about $250 in '90 or so.. .
16 kilobyte module for TIMEX Sinclair 100 ran me (a hard-working high-schooler) a whopping $50!! or ~$3100/Mb back in what, '83?
Then maxxed out my Mac Plus to 4Mb for about $250 in '90 or so.. .
I had a friend who had a Timex Sinclair 1000 around then (1983? 84?) Man. That thing was awesome. We couldn't understand why, when my TI-99/4A modem called his house, his computer didn't answer and say something like "would you like to play a game?"
A modem in those days? Now *THAT* was out of my budget.
I seem to remember it not being that much (maybe $50?). I just remember nearly going broke on cassette tapes to store programs on!
So, old-timers. I ask: what was the most money you ever spent for less than one MB of memory?
As a kid (ca. 1982) I mowed yards for months to buy a 32KB expansion card for my TI-99/4A (~$200).
I still remember my brother spending US$500 to get a 16KB S-100 bus memory expansion card for his old SOL-20 (which still works, by the way!).