stephensheppard@hotmail.com wrote:
Wow, $200 in 1978! Something big must have happened in the next year or so. I paid $18 for eight 4116's in 1979/80.
Yes. RAM prices dropped like lead from 1977 to 1979. It's no coincidence that the first Apple II came with just 4K of RAM standard in 1977, but in 1979 the smallest amount of memory you could get with a new one was changed to 48K.
Or consider the Atari 2600, also released in 1977. It has a whopping 128 bytes (sic) of RAM. Would've made absolutely no sense in 1979.
-- Linards Ticmanis