Tom writes:

> Imagine that - - $20K for 16 megs of memory!!  I don't long for the good
>  old days.

Although I mentioned this a year or so ago when a similar thread came up, the
very first memory that I ever bought from HP was for an HP2116C, HP's first
computer.

At the time, 8K cost $8,000 at the time (this was still the era of ferrite
bead memory). If you multiply it out, and account for 30 years of inflation,
1 MB of memory went for the equivalent of $30,000,000 in today's dollars!
More than that, one meg was probably more than HP could produce in a year. It
all had to be put together by hand in Singapore.

Wirt Atmar