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arrow-up1320arrow-down1external-link32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 minimum — AI shortage continues to squeeze PC buildingwww.tomshardware.comSahwa to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 7 hours agomessage-square68fedilink
minus-square@bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish8•3 hours agoGoing back to the 90s when a few megabytes was hundreds of dollars.
minus-squarepalordrolaplinkfedilink7•1 hour agoThat’d be great if software still had the same small footprint it had back then.
minus-square@Doomsider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•2 hours agoWe added 4 megs to our 486 and it was $80 a meg so $320 for the upgrade. That was back when hard drives where a little over a dollar per meg.
minus-square@zergtoshi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 hours agoAre you sure about hard drives at $1 per meg at that time? It sounds way to cheap.
minus-square@Doomsider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish5•1 hour agoYes, you are probably right. I think I am thinking of when I built my Pentium 100 and it was $360 for a 360 meg hard drive.
Going back to the 90s when a few megabytes was hundreds of dollars.
That’d be great if software still had the same small footprint it had back then.
We added 4 megs to our 486 and it was $80 a meg so $320 for the upgrade. That was back when hard drives where a little over a dollar per meg.
Are you sure about hard drives at $1 per meg at that time?
It sounds way to cheap.
Yes, you are probably right. I think I am thinking of when I built my Pentium 100 and it was $360 for a 360 meg hard drive.
Or 80s, where it was kilobytes.