
Why is Ram so expensive in computers?
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Posted 07 June 2007 - 12:57 AM
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Posted 07 June 2007 - 09:33 AM
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Posted 07 June 2007 - 05:36 PM
In early 1995, my wife bought me 4 Megs of memory for my computer as a gift. At the time, we were not yet married. Well, the other day I found the invoice while going through some old papers we had saved. The invoice didn't say how many stick were purchased. only listed how much memory and the type, but I'm fairly certain it was four memory sticks.
Early 1995
(4) - 1 MB SIMMs @ $640.oo US Dollars and that doesn't include the 5% sales tax in my state.
Later that same year towards the fall season, it was much cheaper, although it was still expensive at over $50.oo per Meg
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#4
Posted 08 June 2007 - 01:10 AM
I've gone for 2gb and if I feel I need 4gb I'll get that later.
V excited to get my new DX10 card!
#5
Posted 12 June 2007 - 04:19 PM
Wow dragonslore, I thought the $150 I paid for 4MB was ridiculous in the mid-90s...

#6
Posted 12 June 2007 - 05:25 PM
Then again, in 1995, memory prices dropped drastically. So if my wife had held off a few weeks, she could have saved a few hundred dollars.
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Posted 12 June 2007 - 05:44 PM

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Posted 13 June 2007 - 04:38 AM
Did it look like this?I bought my first computer in '86 or '87
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#9
Posted 13 June 2007 - 09:41 AM
Buy a computer with a MB or RAM? I still remember buying that FULL LENGTH proprietary memory expansion board to populate with individual memory chips (don't bend the legs) to get that 1 MB of RAM in the 10 MHz 286, and eventually using EMM 386 from Quarterdeck Software to load programs into upper memory. Ahhhh.... the good old days, when that new US Robotics HST modem would set you back a grand if you didn't qualify for a sysop deal.
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#10
Posted 13 June 2007 - 09:56 AM
A quick example to show the diference is that if you open My PC, you can see how much HDD space you have used. And if you open task manager, you can see how much RAM memory is used. This is why a HDD with 300 GB of memory cost about the same as a kingston RAM stick with 1 GB.
#11
Posted 13 June 2007 - 05:47 PM
It was a little smaller than that... It did have 2 5.25 inch floppies as the means of loading programs and, of course, ran DOS...Did it look like this?

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#12
Posted 16 June 2007 - 09:48 AM
joker mentions ferrites, but there were magnetic drums and even specialised CRTs as well. lotsa PDFs are still around, describing this stuff, with a lil digging...
probably the most challenging I found were von Neumann's preliminary and final EDVAC papers; the language at that time to describe what he was doing was lacking, so he had to invent it, and I had to rely mostly on my elementary digital building blocks mini-tut from high school to decipher it.
can anyone imagine the challenge of building a working ALU out of tubes?
still he anticipated things like fanout and the role of bandwidth, and even though he seemigly came up short on the actual architecture, he did the best he could with what existed then I suppose: it beat a mechanical equivalent device, which is all that existed prior
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Posted 16 June 2007 - 10:22 AM
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Posted 16 June 2007 - 02:18 PM
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Posted 17 June 2007 - 04:03 PM