Google says sdram in 1997 was 7 to 10 dollars per megabyte. So 384 would be 3840 not 40,000 am I missing something here?

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p_l 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Possibly inflation adjusted?

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ErroneousBosh 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I had a desktop PC that I bought (as a pile of bits!) with 512MB of RAM in 1999 and I sure as hell didn't pay more than a couple of hundred for memory. That might have been EDO rather than SDRAM though but I can't see the price difference being that much!

	▲	cyberax an hour ago \| parent [-]
		My computer had 16Mb in 1997, and it was lower-range but not the absolute bottom. It looks like Anandtech listed 128Mb for $300 (not inflation adjusted) in 1997. It fell to $150 in 1998 and by 1999 you could buy it for $100. So 512Mb RAM by the end of 1999 for ~$200 was plausible.