Who remembers when memory was ~$40/mb

[FrankSaucedo]

I remember computer class in 10th grade, 1993. I needed to do bar charts in lotus, but my computer couldnt handle it. 486 Clone with 1MB ram.

 

[liluqt]

Back in 7th grade, my parents paid $2000 for a 386 Computer

Bwahhaha
Man, that was sad

 

[IronWing]

I remember when they added the eighth bead to the abacus. Boy was that ever handy.

 

[FoBoT]

my first pc , 1993

i put 8 MB of RAM into it, most people only ran 4 MB at the time

i paid $150 per MB, so that ~$5000 386DX-33 had $1200 of RAM in it

 

[Leper Messiah]

My first compy was a PC/AT. It had 640k of RAM. I got for $75 at a yard sale when I was like 9 or something.


I wish I still had that Would have been an awesome mod for a case or something...

 

[NoToRiOuS1]

*looks around the thread*
.....
*notices all these old folk and slowly backs out and heads to the SFF and tech support forum to help some n00bies with their l33t haxor machines*

im just joshin with you
*cough*senior citizens*cough*

i moved to america when i was 11 or so i only remember the days of pent 133 & the coveted MMX technology. i remember i use to rummage through different catalogs of computer stores and use to think about all the things i could do if/when i get a compy.
good ol days

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: 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.

I'm only a year old and I still remember my 286 /w 640KB of ram

It was a HUGE "Lap"top.

 

[oogabooga]

i remember at around 12 years old i had to wait till my 13th birthday to get more ram so i can run wing commander III on my 486.
I also remember when WCII came out how frustrated i was not being able to make my own maps since i didn't have windows 95

 

[Koenigsegg]

Originally posted by: 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.

You mean 14.4 =p

 

[Freejack2]

In 1990 I got a 386sx 16mhz computer with 4 megs of ram, a trident 512k vga card, and a 65mb rll 5.25" half height drive. That sadly enough was a really nice computer back then. I ordered it with 2mb of ram and decided when I picked it up to go to 4mb which cost $150 to add in.

 

[kranky]

First computer I worked on (a VAX minicomputer at work), we paid $25,000 for 256K of RAM. Yes, 256K.

 

[sonoma1993]

i remember my 1st pc, it was an old tandy 1000 rl model, it orignally had 512k memory and we upgraded it to 768k of ram. It had an intel 8088 or 8086 cpu in it. Then long time later, we got an packard bell computer that had an intel 166mhz mmx cpu and 16mb of ram, and a s3 trio built in video card. Id upgraded that computer to an amd k6-3 400mhz from powerleap, 48mb of edo dram, 3dfx voodoo3 2000, 56k modem and aurel vortex advantage. After that upgrade, that computer had no problem playin star wars jedi knight 2.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: 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

Our hard drives have more cache than our computers used to have [ram]

Edit: I remember buying a 4 MB SIMM for $160 one month, then the next month 8 MB SIMMs were $160, so I bought one, then the next month 16 MB SIMMs were $160, so I bought one of those. Man I was pissed.

(Yes, my computer took single SIMMs, it had 4 MB "onboard" and one only one SIMM slot)

 

[Koenigsegg]

Originally posted by: kranky
First computer I worked on (a VAX minicomputer at work), we paid $25,000 for 256K of RAM. Yes, 256K.

"64k of memory is more than we'll ever need."

 

[Koenigsegg]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: 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

Our hard drives have more cache than our computers used to have [ram]

Our CPUs have more cache than computers used to have memory too

 

[aplefka]

Originally posted by: compnovice
I don't remember....I have bad memory....

That was horrible.

 

[phaxmohdem]

After I dismantled my first computer (hand-me down 286 PC-AT 6MHz 2.5MB RAM, 40MBHDD) My father brought me home a used Digital DEC PC (386SX-16 w/ 4MB RAM and a 120MB HDD) This was the first computer I ever bought RAM for. I spent $20 for 4 sticks of 4MB 30 pin SIMMS to upgrade to 16MB so I could run Win 3.11 faster. This was about a year after my dad purchased a brand new Micron Pentium 100/16MB/1.6GB system which was one nothc under top of the line for the time (Top = P133)

From there my parents kept their P100, while I kept snatching up deals at various stores on faster PC's P133...PII233...K62-500...PII400...AthlonXP1700...AthlonXP2500....AthlonFX-51

My parents today are using my old PII400 system which I handed down to them. And their Pentium 100 system has been given to their aging cat who uses it as a stepping stool to get up to its bed ontop of a cabinet.

//end Life Story

 

[SVT Cobra]

yeah I remember thse days...

before I started building my own comps my first one was an IBM aptiva, 66mgz..my mom actually still uses it to do her taxes...

 

[jadinolf]

I have 128 Megs of memory in my desk. Anybody want to offer me $ 1200 for it? I'll await your email.

 

[replicator]

I remember my first computer, the Amiga 500 when it just came out, and I got it with the big 1 MB. The entire thing cost me over $3000 and there was no hard-drive. A HD was released a few years later (20 MB) and it was well over $500.

 

[ViperXX]

My first computer (1994) was a 486DX with 4 MB memory, 380Mb hard drive, Trident video card, 5 ½? floppy, 3.5? floppy drive, CD-ROM drive with a Pro Audio sound card.

I saw Doom for the first time at a friend?s house, he gave me a copy 4 - 3.5" floppies for the whole game. I went home and played it. Damn, Doom was bad ass! I bought Nascar Racing from Papyrus about a year later. I couldn't turn on all the eye candy with my current system so I went to a 486SX with 8MB of Ram. Surprised the wife let me do it. I think it was like $500 for the upgrade.

 

[timelapse]

Our first home PC was a Gateway 386SX-16 I loved that thing... would play Dungeons and Dragons "Secret of the Silver blades".. I still would if I could find/buy those games. I loved them...

The it was a Dell Dimension P166 (nonMMX) w/32mb ram with WIN95!!!!!!!

And I used that..... until I built a 1.4 Ghz Thunderbird Athlon with 256MB/ram WHAT A CHANGE

 

[irwincur]

First video card - 64K Triton.

Did 2D antil aliasing in hardware though. Useful on those old blurry monitors.

 

[Vegito]

Originally posted by: 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.

sorry, i only had 16k in my trs80.. and when i moved to a 8086, i had 640k.. now i got 4 gb on 1 machine and 2 in each of the other 4

 

[Koenigsegg]

Originally posted by: ViperXX
My first computer (1994) was a 486DX with 4 MB memory, 380Mb hard drive, Trident video card, 5 ½? floppy, 3.5? floppy drive, CD-ROM drive with a Pro Audio sound card.

I saw Doom for the first time at a friend?s house, he gave me a copy 4 - 3.5" floppies for the whole game. I went home and played it. Damn, Doom was bad ass! I bought Nascar Racing from Papyrus about a year later. I couldn't turn on all the eye candy with my current system so I went to a 486SX with 8MB of Ram. Surprised the wife let me do it. I think it was like $500 for the upgrade.

How did the 486 designations go? SX, DX, DX2, DX4?