I'm Getting Old

[bjarvis]

About 15 years ago, I spent something like $5k CDN to purchase a 32 MB VME memory board --about 18 inches on each side-- for a Sun 4/280.

Today at Staples, there was a bin at the checkout counter of 64 MB flash memory USB fobs for $7.60 each. At first glance, I mistook them for candy.

Gad.

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[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

in 1987 I started using an XT at work to keep track of student grades, and to word process the lab manuals ( in WordPerfect 4.2), and after two or three weeks I knew I wanted one for my very own. (even though you did have to shut down one application - say, Lotus 1-2-3 - to fire up another, say the wordpro application)

It was 1988 when I got the cash together, since it was $5000 for the setup -- an XT, with a 5.25 floppy drive and a blistering 32meg hard drive. The monitor was glorious amber and grey (better to look at than green, apparently). with inflation (taking the price of a stamp as a decent indicator), that would be about $6800 in today's dollars.

last July I bought a laptop for 20% of that, and it would have been significantly less, had I not put 2Gig of RAM in it.

the USB memory keys are going to be coming enclosed in cornflakes boxes soon.