[Elecraft] Computers in the Stone Age

[Kevin Cozens]

On 14-05-28 02:22 PM, MontyS wrote:
> The memory on my Altair 8800, 8k of dynamic ram, cost $800.  That's 10 cents
> a byte.

The kit you could buy, announced on the cover of Popular Electronics where 
it said "save over $1000", was around $400, IIRC. An early BYTE magazine I 
contained an ad for a 256Meg plug-in memory card for an S-100 bus that costs 
about $10,000US. Advance a few years and 256Meg of RAM was in a single chip 
that costs around $10 or less.

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