[LINK] Hard disk storage: 8 GB costs as much as a roll of toilet paper

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Robin Whittle <rw at firstpr.com.au> wrote:

> DRAM is less than $50 a gigabyte.

If the prices would have been this low 15 years ago, the world+dog
would be running IBM OS/2 by now, instead of Microsoft Windows.

The problem back then was that IBM's 32-bit, object-oriented OS
required 8 to 16 megabytes to run, while most systems designed for
DOS+Windows 3.1 shipped with 4 megabytes of RAM.

I remember the cost of RAM in the early to mid 1990s was ludicrous...

I also remember that at a point there was a shortage in supply... due
to a fire at a Japanese epoxy resin factory that supplied 60% of the
RAM marketplace, which raised prices even more.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-14459712.html

FC