Thursday, April 7, 2011

Nostalgeek: when 16 KB of RAM worth $ 485

A few weeks ago we were talking about hard disks, worth a small fortune a few years ago. And for the memory? And although it was also very expensive ... Like last time, here are some vintage commercials ... With Mostek, we had memories ... 1 KB. Not bad for its time, even if the contents of this news should not go into this chip.

With the ZX80, star of that time, the RAM was only 1 kb at the base. And extension at 16 kb, a capacity to correct the early 80s, was worth nearly $ 500. Marvel at its size. At Thinker Toys, it is appreciated when the memory goes to 2 cents per byte. $ 650 for 32 KB of memory and $ 300 for 16 kb.

To give an idea, you can check our last statement on the price of RAM.

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