Stan Sieler writes:

>However, most small shops won't benefit from bigger memory capacity
>because they won't be interested in (or capable of?) *buying*
>more than 4 GB of main memory.  (At least, not for the next 5 years or so)

At current prices, 4GB of memory goes for as little as $7,000. In five
years, it's not unreasonable to expect 4GB to be under $2,000.

-- Bruce

PS. My July, 1977 HP3000 Price/Configuration Guide shows a price of
$5,000 for 64KB of add-on memory.

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