[kwlug-disc] Free 8GB DDR2

[R. Brent Clements]

First RAM I ever bought was a 16M module for my 486DX4.  Got a really good
deal on it at $650.  A year later I bought another one for $140

Brent

On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 12:34, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 11:28 AM Jason Eckert <jason.eckert at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I still remember the 2.5GB IBM 3380 drives we had at UW (one per tower in
>> the red room) at a cost of about $130,000USD in 1981.
>> When I decommissioned them, I turned one into a coffee table in my rec
>> room: https://jasoneckert.github.io/bio/personal/3380.jpg
>>
>
> That is awesome ...
>
> The first mainframe (NCR) that I worked on in 1985 had hard drives that
> were only 500MB, and they were somewhat higher than top loading washing
> machine ... They had to be powered off using a special sequence and the
> maintenance engineers for the vendor were very protective of them because
> of expensive spare parts and no other customer using them in the country
> (Egypt).
>
> The site had 6 of them for a grand total of 3GB, way much more than most
> mainframes in that country at the time.
>
> One failed, and it took several weeks to get the tool to detach a part
> from another (something like an Allen key, but specialized).
>
> Kids these days ...
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