[kwlug-disc] Free 8GB DDR2

[Charles M]

That was a good deal, I remember buying 8MB for $450 for my 486.

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 4:58 PM R. Brent Clements <rbclemen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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