the yout' o' t'day
Back in 1985 I got 1 MB (yes, that's megabyte) SIMMs for $600 each. They had to be purchased in pairs. I had a Mac Plus which shipped with four 256 kB SIMMs. The machine cost $2500 (and was less than half the price of a PC-AT, though the AT had a 20 MB hard drive) and if I'd upgraded to the full 4 MB it could take, I'd have paid another $2400. No, it wasn't Apple RAM, but I suspect that they were inspired when they saw the pricing.
Six months later 1 MB sticks were $300 each. I believe that they went as low as $100/stick before New Tech(tm) replaced them.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
