On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 13:05, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 00:56, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > On 10 Dec 2002, 23:18:30, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > [snip] > > When PC DASD (Hard-Drives) hit $1/MB, I was in shock. Now it's $1/GB. > > When PC RAM hit $1/MB I was really in shock. Now you can get 1 GB or RAM > > for a little over $100 . . . > > I just purchased 1.5GB for US$94. If my math is right, that is $94 for > 1536MB, thus $0.06/MB. What is my son going to think when I tell him > how impressed I was about this? What will I tell him about not being > able to fill up a 40MB disk? > > > I hate being old. > > But we'll be able to regale our grandchildren with such great (read: > boring) stories about the dawn of the PC age!!!! > > -- > +---------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net | > | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | > | | > | "My advice to you is to get married: If you find a good wife, | > | you will be happy; if not, you will become a philosopher." | > | Socrates | > +---------------------------------------------------------------+ Actually, all of this talk about the limited equipment and abilities of these old computers gives a *different* meaning to "microcomputer" - unfortunately micro referring to the abilities and capacity. In that context, even an IBM 360 before the year 1970 could be called a "microcomputer" compared to today's systems. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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