Memory prices

[Joe Black]

That's pathetic. I remember when 64k EPROMs cost that much, and I'm not THAT old as techies go...

64K for £40, you don't know how good you had it.

In my day we were lucky to share 16K between 8 people and it cost as much as a new car!!!

Joe in "not far from the truth" mode.

[TheMonkey]

64K for £40, you don't know how good you had it.

In my day we were lucky to share 16K between 8 people and it cost as much as a new car!!!

Joe in "not far from the truth" mode.

Yeah and the bloody valves kept going...

[hattra]

That's pathetic. I remember when 64k EPROMs cost that much, and I'm not THAT old as techies go...

Right,

I remember when the 4k upgrade for our PDP-8e cost £1000, and you wouldn't believe how much we spent on paper tape and ribbons for the teletypes ...........

Not that I'm that old, really

[AtW]

I remember when the 4k upgrade for our PDP-8e cost £1000

How much was average house price back in those ages?

[hattra]

How much was average house price back in those ages?

I was only 14...

and we didn't live in an average house

Seriously - that was about 1969 - probably around £4 - 5000 for a three-bedroomed semi - my parent's house in England was £8000 (rural Bedfordshire) - obviously London prices were higher, like now.

[PerlOfWisdom]

How much was average house price back in those ages?

Only fools bought houses in them days - the insane inflation of house prices couldn't continue.

[AtW]

Only fools bought houses in them days - the insane inflation of house prices couldn't continue.

Oh, so no comments about my implementation of the code that was searching for 1500 times more data than yours? I thought so!

[DimPrawn]

Oh, so no comments about my implementation of the code that was searching for 1500 times more data than yours? I thought so!

There is no doubt AtW that you are the best person in the world at writing C# code for searching for data in the format you have created that is specific to what you are doing at the moment.

I am the best person in the world at writing in my own handwriting.

[AtW]

Running url loading process on 6 CPUs that deduplicates urls found on 5 bln crawled pages - approximately 50 bln urls (long strings) in question I think, once they are deduped against each other I will need to dedup them against existing 22 bln unique ones I have.

And this kind of stuff is child's game for me now - I work on far more advanced concepts that in a couple of centuries will approach the complexity of the stuff threaded has been working on in the middle ages

[DaveB]

Back in the late eighties I dabbled in the 2nd had server and components market. Picked up a Dell box that was supposed to be pretty basic. Opened it up to check everything was in order and found 2x512mb SIMMS that I wasnt expecting. Prices on the 2nd hand market back then were around £350 quid each. Result

Surplus memory was always a nice little earner from doing upgrades on business sites as well. 20 pcs going from 64mb to 128mb meant a nice stack of 16 and 32mb SIMMS to be "disposed of"