4 Jun
2010
4 Jun
'10
10:14 p.m.
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Gene Buckle <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
I have a very clear memory (no pun intented) of
spending $19.95 for *one*
256k x 1 (41256?) memory chip. ?I needed nine of the things to make a full
bank in my PC. ?This was around 1987 or so. ?It took a long time to fill
that bank of memory...
I remember those days - 41256s went from about $3.50 to $17.50 nearly overnight.
My main machine at the time was an Amiga 1000. I bought a 0K Spirit
Inboard inexpensively (for the day), then was faced with coming up
with $840 or so for RAM, retail. I was lucky enough to snag a
discarded engineering prototype from work that had a few 50256s on it
(and lots of blue wires soldered to the shoulders). Some of them made
it into that Inboard (after I honed my
chip-extraction-from-a-six-layer-board technique - $140 saved per
working set was a lot of motivation to keep a steady hand).
-ethan