Re: A question about 80 columns card

[Greg Weston <gwestonREMOVE@CAPSattbi.com>]

In article <20030509055804.29247.00000072@mb-m16.aol.com>, Michael J.
Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

> I had forgotten just when DRAM prices collapsed, until I ran across
> this quote (from a description of the dumping lawsuit):
> 
>  "Due to Japanese competition, prices for 256K chips have
>  fallen from $18-20 in 1984 to $2 in 1985."
> 
> So when the //e was introduced, and certainly when it was
> designed, the cost of DRAM would have added about $40
> to the _cost_ of a //e, justifying the additional $2 cost for
> making it optional.
> 
> By 1985, though, the cost of the second 128KB had dropped
> to $4.
> 
> Yet another example of how Moore's Law (and a little dumping ;-)
> can obsolete some good design choices.

Ulch. Remind us all about the bad times, whydoncha? All well and good
to be against dumping, but the American manufacturers weren't at all
prepared for the imports to dry up like they did. In 1988, 128KB was up
to $25.

G