[billbears]

Does anybody remember when 512 megs of ANY type RAM would have cost the same as a down payment on a car? Running Raid 1 myself and it is an appreciable difference in search speed. I've had a drive crash before and wasn't able to retrieve anything off that drive so I've learned my lesson there

[Oschisms]

Arrrgh; You're right- I wasn't specific enough in my earlier post. My RAID 1 is faster reading (because there are 2 drives to read from) but slower writing. (Because it has to write data twice.)

[RadioAstronomer]

I remember when 256K ram chips were 12$ each for an XT I was building. Total; 432$ for 1 meg. For 512 Megs it would have cost me 221,184.00$ back then. (1984).

[backhoe]

Does anybody remember when 512 megs of ANY type RAM would have cost the same as a down payment on a car?

Oh Lordy! Yes! I'm trying to revive a 66 mHz 486 board to use as a backup web browser ( No. I am not kidding; it's the second best MB I have! ) and was recalling the first time I upgraded a Tandy 1000 SX (?) from 384K to a "full" 640K-- cost an arm & a leg, took forever to get the IC's ( remember the memory shortages we used to have? ), had to get a bootleg copy of DOS 3.3, etc., etc.!