Comment by bombcar Comment by bombcar a day ago 2 replies Copy Link View on Hacker News Olds remember the years around '95 when RAM stayed the exact same price per megabyte for what seemed a decade.
Copy Link robotresearcher 8 hours ago Collapse Comment - I paid about GBP 20K for the 192MB RAM in a Sun SPARC 5 workstation in 1995. That’s maybe $27K USD in 1995 dollars. Gulp. Reply View | 1 reply Copy Link bombcar 4 hours ago Parent Collapse Comment - There is or was a website that would let you plug in an Apple computer, and then tell you what you'd be worth if instead you'd bought Apple stock.I put my G4 PowerBook into it once, and then vowed never to look at it again. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link bombcar 4 hours ago Parent Collapse Comment - There is or was a website that would let you plug in an Apple computer, and then tell you what you'd be worth if instead you'd bought Apple stock.I put my G4 PowerBook into it once, and then vowed never to look at it again. Reply View | 0 replies
I paid about GBP 20K for the 192MB RAM in a Sun SPARC 5 workstation in 1995. That’s maybe $27K USD in 1995 dollars. Gulp.