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April 2001, Week 4

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Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
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Bruce writes (in a successful attempt at creating an old-timer's war):

> PS. Also from the same issue:
>
>     From a price point of view, the Series III is the industry
>     leader in large memory configurations. Series III memory
>     is priced at $8,000 per 256 KB including error correction.
>     That's $32,000/megabyte.

I've mentioned before that the first memory I bought from HP was in 1969 for
our HP2116C. 8K was the most we could afford. That memory was priced at
$1,000 per kilobyte -- or $1 million dollars/megabyte!

But to add insult to injury, that was in 1969 dollars, which would have made
it perhaps $8 million dollars/megabyte in today's money.

Wirt Atmar

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