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FaceTheSun t1_j9ik4ia wrote

lol....the first time I bought RAM to upgrade my PC it cost $50.00/MB....so 1 GB would be $50,000.00.

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Dyak80 t1_j9lkh32 wrote

That is just a lot, can you explain me why was that so expensive?

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FaceTheSun t1_j9llioy wrote

It was in about 1987... the computer had only a few MB to begin with.

There was no such thing as USB at that time and a high capacity removable storage (floppy disc) had maybe 1.4 MB !

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So things are a bit different these days.

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