Back in 1990 when I was 27, I worked at a computer store -
OnLine Connecting Point at the corner of Blackstone and
Herndon. The
Mac SE was the hot item around that time. You could upgrade the memory to - hold on to your seat -
8 MEGABYTES! Wow! That was amazing. I think it was somewhere around that time that Bill Gates was quoted as saying, "640K ought to be enough for anybody." Even more amazing was the price.
Memory prices have always gone up and down. Some time near 1990, a 1 Megabyte
SIMM (memory module) cost
one Benjamin!
That's right, $100 for 1 megabyte of RAM. Occasionally a Doctor or Lawyer would drop in and upgrade their Mac to 4 Megabytes of RAM - just $400!
Today, I ordered 2
GIGAbytes of RAM for Nick's computer. With tax and shipping, it was $30. That's 13 times less cost for 500 times more memory. This economy problem does have a few advantages.
My first thumb drive in 2004 was a whopping 1 gigabyte and it cost $100. The other day I ordered a 16 gigabyte thumb drive for $19 with free shipping. If this keeps going, these will get to the point of DVD recordables. People will transfer data and not expect to get their drive back.
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