>I can't say much about prices.  I do remember there was a market crash
>once in the late 60's or 70's on memory.  I was told this by a elderly
>salesman who told me he was working for a company that made 'core' memory
>(do any of you remember core?)  This memory was made with 3 wires being
>passed through a ferro-magnetic ring.  His company was about to make a
>"new" breakthrough in the miniaturization of this stuff ... and then the
>"memory chip" was born...."go figure" what happened to his company.
>
>The name of this salesman was "Jim Burger" in Southern California.  I'm
>looking for his phone number if you're interested.

Ah, the memories...

In 1978 we needed to add 1mb to our pdp-11/70 system. It had 512k of core
at the time. DEC wanted 43k for 1mb of semiconductor memory. At the time
there were various vendors selling memory for the pdp-11 all at about
20k per mb. We ended up buying from Mostek (they also supplied memory
chips for HP).


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