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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I got a quote on iron-core memory in the late 1970s from IBM at $1.75 million ... per megabyte.

A year ago I bought a gigabyte of RAM for about $50.

A 30-million-fold decrease in price.

40 posted on 01/13/2012 6:38:52 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)

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To: DuncanWaring

A gigabyte of RAM for $50? Did that include courier service?

43 posted on 01/13/2012 8:42:33 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")

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