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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2018234, member: 27832&quot;]Yep. I <i>invested</i> in 16Kx1 dynamic RAM DIPs back in 1979, $49 for a set of 8.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be a bit of a challenge to build an adapter that would connect them to a modern system, but if I did so, they would now represent about .016 cent worth of memory.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or, to put it another way, I spent $80 a couple of years ago to upgrade my laptop to 16GB. (The cost has actually gone <i>up</i> since then; the chip market can be choppy.) Buying that amount of RAM at 1979 prices would have cost 49 <i>million</i> dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, again, 2014 memory would have been of no use to anyone in 1979, and 1979 memory is of no use to anyone today (except computing-history hobbyists). So the pure numbers are kind of bogus. Besides, the experience that I got from working on that computer set me up for a fairly lucrative career, so in that sense, it actually <i>was</i> a &quot;good investment&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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