Who remembers when memory was ~$40/mb

[Koenigsegg]

I remember thinking I got a great deal on my 4mb stick for $160 =/

The performance jump from 4mb to 8mb was amazing though on my 486 system. It really sucked though because the 486 mobo only had 4 slots for those small memory sticks, while my 386 had 8 so I had 4 1mb sticks leftover..

God I've spent so much money on computers over the past decade and a half.

 

[DainBramaged]

*raises hand*

 

[Viper GTS]

Yup, I remember when I would have killed for a 486 with $1200 worth of memory (32 MB!).

When I was able to get 32 MB sticks for around $100 per stick I bought four for my Pentium 100. At the time it was amazing.

That system is still in use too. Drop in Intel Overdrive (233 MMX), still with the 128 MB.

Viper GTS

 

[HN]

i remember "OMGWTF128MBBBQ!!1!!128 :shocked: "

 

[Koenigsegg]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Yup, I remember when I would have killed for a 486 with $1200 worth of memory (32 MB!).

When I was able to get 32 MB sticks for around $100 per stick I bought four for my Pentium 100. At the time it was amazing.

That system is still in use too. Drop in Intel Overdrive (233 MMX), still with the 128 MB.

Viper GTS

Did you get your P100 when the MMX's were around? I remember having to get a new mobo because the MMX's ran at 2.8v or something instead of 3.3 which was what the pre MMX ones ran at.

My 166mmx was blazing fast when overclocked to 210. Tomb Raider 2 was amazing with my S3..something. Anyone remember the chipset? Not the Virge, the one that came after it, the same gen as the "TNT"..

 

[radioouman]

Yep... 4 meg was $170 for the longest time at the local computer store.

I made my Dad buy me 16 meg at a computer show for $500
I feel so bad about that.

 

[dxkj]

hell with that.... we have more memory in our systems these days than we had in our hard drives....


2 GB of RAM wtf? we have FLASH drives way bigger than HDD's even 8 years ago

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: radioouman
Yep... 4 meg was $170 for the longest time at the local computer store.

I made my Dad buy me 16 meg at a computer show for $500
I feel so bad about that.

made?

 

[Koenigsegg]

Originally posted by: radioouman
Yep... 4 meg was $170 for the longest time at the local computer store.

I made my Dad buy me 16 meg at a computer show for $500
I feel so bad about that.

Ha, yes. I remember I was 12 or something at the time or so and wouldn't stop complaining that 4mb wasn't cutting it. I kept checking the newspapers everyday for ads on cheap RAM until he finally plunged.

If my future kid does that I don't know whether to be proud or sad..

 

[radioouman]

Originally posted by: dxkj

Originally posted by: radioouman
Yep... 4 meg was $170 for the longest time at the local computer store.

I made my Dad buy me 16 meg at a computer show for $500
I feel so bad about that.

made?

He didn't have to do it, but I really wanted that much memory.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

I remember, or at least think I do

We built a computer in the early 90's that I remember and it had that much RAM, the 1GB Western Digital drive was VERY expensive at the time

 

[compnovice]

I don't remember....I have bad memory....

 

[conjur]

I remember when memory chips came in a long plastic tube and were in increments of 64KB.

 

[nakedfrog]

I remember when I upgraded my 486SX33, 8MB was a hair over $200

 

[DaveSimmons]

I paid $300 to upgrade my TRS-80 model 1 from 4 K up to 16 K.

300 / 12 * 1024 = $25,600 per MB.

 

[fbrdphreak]

I remember when my Dad spent like $200 for a 2MB Upgrade so we could play Rise of the Triad, installed from the five 3.5" disks

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
I paid $300 to upgrade my TRS-80 model 1 from 4 K up to 16 K.

300 / 12 * 1024 = $25,600 per MB.

:Q

 

[KoolDrew]

I don't because I am only 16 years old, but the first PC I got which was our family PC was top of the line back then and has 32MB of RAM I think.

 

[Koenigsegg]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
I remember when my Dad spent like $200 for a 2MB Upgrade so we could play Rise of the Triad, installed from the five 3.5" disks

Oh man that game was so awesome. I remember blowing people up and seeing eyeballs and stuff.

 

[eLiu]

Originally posted by: conjur
I remember when memory chips came in a long plastic tube and were in increments of 64KB.

I remember not even being close to conception at that point

 

[mwmorph]

I remember my first intel Pc. 486Dx 25MHz which oced to the incredble speed of 33MHZ. AWESOME. 32MB ram, 1.5 gigs total HDD space, 2 Cd drives, a 5.25" and a 3.5" floppy. 2MB Video Ram! SB compatible ISA sound card. 16K modem. AOL.

 

[SagaLore]

Our children are going to grow up, reminiscing of way back when "data was stored on oversized discs called DVDs, and only had 4GB of storage space."

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: eLiu

Originally posted by: conjur
I remember when memory chips came in a long plastic tube and were in increments of 64KB.

I remember not even being close to conception at that point

Here's what they looked like!

 

[Landroval]

 

[Mucho]

Once bought a 486DX4 with 4 Megs for $1,000 Canadian