On 2017-10-11 07:32, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 10/08/2017 09:38 AM, Stevens wrote:
David, cry me a river. I still remember once upon a time when I spent almost $600 for 512 MEG of ram to upgrade a system ;-)
You still in Nacogdoches?
Yep, still trying to avoid starving to death in the woods :)
I got you one better, my very first box, a 386/33 with 387 math coprocessor, I spent a whopping $400 for 1M of RAM. Sheeze... Then buying 40G for $27 (with shipping) for full ecc-server RAM really showed how Moore's law had lived up to its exponential billing.
With the first box, I got a whopping 120M hard drive (I couldn't wait for DOS 4.1 to come out to get rid of the 33M partition limit.)
But did you notice that buying the next computer costs about the same as the previous computer? And that you can not buy a computer (new) of limited power for much less money instead? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" (Minas Tirith))