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minus-squarebridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·1 day agoGoing back to the 90s when a few megabytes was hundreds of dollars.
minus-squarepalordrolap@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up20·1 day agoThat’d be great if software still had the same small footprint it had back then.
minus-squareDoomsider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·1 day agoWe added 4 megs to our 486 and it was $80 a meg so $320 for the upgrade. That was back when hard drives where a little over a dollar per meg.
minus-squarezergtoshi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoAre you sure about hard drives at $1 per meg at that time? It sounds way to cheap.
minus-squareDoomsider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 day agoYes, you are probably right. I think I am thinking of when I built my Pentium 100 and it was $360 for a 360 meg hard drive.
Going back to the 90s when a few megabytes was hundreds of dollars.
That’d be great if software still had the same small footprint it had back then.
We added 4 megs to our 486 and it was $80 a meg so $320 for the upgrade. That was back when hard drives where a little over a dollar per meg.
Are you sure about hard drives at $1 per meg at that time?
It sounds way to cheap.
Yes, you are probably right. I think I am thinking of when I built my Pentium 100 and it was $360 for a 360 meg hard drive.
Or 80s, where it was kilobytes.