Comment by Kye Comment by Kye 5 days ago 3 replies Copy Link View on Hacker News It could have been bought old and upgraded. Not everyone had the luxury of a brand new first computer.
Copy Link xxs 5 days ago Collapse Comment - Possibly, but even mother boards supporting 32MB would be rare. Perhaps on "DX3"?As for a new computer and price - it was like $1000 to get AMD 486DX2-80 with 4MB RAM in '95... Reply View | 2 replies Copy Link pixl97 5 days ago Parent Next Collapse Comment - So this depends if it was a 72 pin DIMM board. I don't think you could get there (easily?) on a 30 pin board, but 72 may have had native support for 64 out of the box. Reply View | 0 replies Copy Link snerbles 4 days ago Parent Prev Collapse Comment - I upgraded a ~1992 Dell 486 DX2 to 36MB (original 4MB + 32MB...or was it a pair of 16MB sticks? hard to remember) around 1997 or so. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link pixl97 5 days ago Parent Next Collapse Comment - So this depends if it was a 72 pin DIMM board. I don't think you could get there (easily?) on a 30 pin board, but 72 may have had native support for 64 out of the box. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link snerbles 4 days ago Parent Prev Collapse Comment - I upgraded a ~1992 Dell 486 DX2 to 36MB (original 4MB + 32MB...or was it a pair of 16MB sticks? hard to remember) around 1997 or so. Reply View | 0 replies
Possibly, but even mother boards supporting 32MB would be rare. Perhaps on "DX3"?
As for a new computer and price - it was like $1000 to get AMD 486DX2-80 with 4MB RAM in '95...