Old Prices... New prices

I've just received an e-mail from a well known Memory re-seller...

1Gb for £9.97

That got me thinking....

I once paid £350 for a 16Mb SIMM... (in about 1995) for a Performa 630

If memory had stayed the same cost I would have paid £21,875 for the 1Gb chip!!

Does anyone else have a similar story?

Edited by nonymouse (Wed 18-Feb-09 20:54:33)

First separate HDD I bought, they were about £1/Megabyte... My last HDD would have been about £1,000,000

I think in about 1992 I had 20mb hard drive installed into an amstrad portable (it couldn't be described as a laptop) for the price of £290

1970 'Pocket' calculator - the size of a paperback - LED, yes LED, display, no memory and just basic functions £100.00. (Two months wages for me in 1970)

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In the RAM stakes I bought a 2MB stick way back when that set me back nearly £300. Actually, I bought two to upgrade two separate machines in the office. At £150 per MB the current value of all the RAM sticks in all my machines would be ....... wait for it......£5,526,000!

That's nothing compared to the HD storage difference to the 40MB drive I once used to upgrade my Mac LC II. I just roughly added up the HD value of all my machines and its nearly £9,000,000 at the same price per MB as that 40MB drive.

Edited by Desmond (Wed 18-Feb-09 20:12:56)

4K of RAM for my UK101 (more years ago than I care to remember), £40. That would be £ 163,840 for 16Mb, or £10,485,760 for 1Gb.

There was a time when flatbed scanners were hugely expensive. I remember around 1995 getting an HP ScanJet (SCSI) for around £700 (?) . Can't remember the exact dimensions, it was a bit wider and longer than A4, but not much.

Somewhere around here i have one of the gold plated Sinclair Sovereign LED calculators. It's probably worth a bit of money now.... Maybe, even more than it once cost (I bought it for £20 in a junk shop somewhere in the 80s) and last time i looked it still worked. I also have one of the iconic 80s Braun calculators, which cost about £180 odd new. I still use that every single day.

The first hard drive I ever saw was called a "Winchester". It was the same size as a small suitcase and had 10Mb of storage space. We ran a 16 station network from it.

The first calculator I used was in 1968 - just very basic and the size of a modern day laptop. It cost the equivalent of my annual salary - £350!. It was useless because at the time I was a quantity surveyor and we were calculating in pounds, shillings and pence and yards, feet and inches.

I was a quantity surveyor and we were calculating in pounds, shillings and pence and yards, feet and inches.

Q: How many surveyors does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: CHANGE?!?!?! What do you mean change?