So you think RAM is expensive?

[CanadaRAM]

Someone on another list dug up an official Apple Canada pricelist from 1977

Apple II Complete Computer, with 4 KB RAM $1,400
Apple II Complete Computer, with 16 KB RAM $1,678
Apple II Complete Computer, with 48 KB RAM $2,638

44 KB RAM upgrade = $1,343

That's $30.50 per Kb, $31,232 per Mb

At that rate, a fully loaded 16 Gb G5 tower would cost (for the RAM alone)




<wait for it>



511


Million


Dollars


in 1977 dollars


Which is approximately

1

point

6

billion

2006 dollars


Now, don't let me hear you complain about the price of RAM today...

Thanks
Trevor
CanadaRAM.com

 

[rockandrule]

Wow, that was amazing. I think that makes me want to just shell out the $100+ for another gig stick.

 

[sushi]

Someone on another list dug up an official Apple Canada pricelist from 1977

Apple II Complete Computer, with 4 KB RAM $1,400
Apple II Complete Computer, with 16 KB RAM $1,678
Apple II Complete Computer, with 48 KB RAM $2,638

44 KB RAM upgrade = $1,343

That's $30.50 per Kb, $31,232 per Mb
<snip>

Yep, memory used to be very expensive.

The most that I paid for memory was in the late 80's for a 96KB module for my HP-71.

Cost was $1,295 or $13,489 per MB.

...that's only 13.5 million per GB. What a bargin!

 

[Moshiiii]

Wow. Nice post!

 

[jsw]

Speaking of RAM, I wonder at what point the world's total RAM exceeded the 16 GB you can stuff in a G5 now. Probably more recently than many would expect... late '70's, maybe?

 

[mattcube64]

It makes you think...

...that in another thirty years, might we be stuffing terabytes of
RAM into our computers?!

 

[jsw]

If we follow the trend, it'll be petabytes.

Which will be required if you want to keep all of mad jew's posts in memory by then.

 

[X5-452]

Holy crap, that's ridiculous.

 

[rockandrule]

If we follow the trend, it'll be petabytes.

Which will be required if you want to keep all of mad jew's posts in memory by then.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Glorious.

 

[h0e0h]

i sold a 24MB stick of ED ram from an old e-machine last year on ebay for 74 cents....

 

[mad jew]

Which will be required if you want to keep all of mad jew's posts in memory by then.

Who you callin' a PostWhore™?

 

[CanadaRAM]

i sold a 24MB stick of ED ram from an old e-machine last year on ebay for 74 cents....

If it was suffering from ED, I coulda sent you the address of this guy who'd sell you some pills and inflate its .. price.. for ya...

 

[Abstract]

Thanks Doctor Q!


Oh wait......*looks up*