-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/31/08 08:57, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:37:03AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 01/31/08 01:38, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: >>> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 20:13 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>>> The only solution is to take out that excess RAM and send it to me! >>> Sorry,.. I've already threw it away ;-P >> Are you old enough to remember when 256KB cost a thousand dollars? > > yep, well maybe not $1000, but a lot anyway. and that was so much ram > how could you ever use it all... I mean that was more than a third of > 640K and no way did anybody need more than that,
Text-mode DOS apps just didn't *need* much RAM. >> And now we joke about throwing away a GB... > > It's wierd, but I still feel like buying memory is splurging. I've got > a couple machines that could really use another 256-512MB and I can't > quite stomach buying it. I know, I know, as soon as I look at the > prices, I'll realise it's dirt cheap and wonder why I didn't do it > months ago... just a mental block. Ingrained habit. I can still remember buying a 250MB HDD for $300. Now you get 4000x more capacity for the same price. My desktop has more memory than some of our old still-in-service workhorse Alphas. Of course, the less-old Alphas still have 16-32GB RAM. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHofeDS9HxQb37XmcRAiMgAKCJh6qevy5YxMkS5njR1sQsn2Y4CQCdFg5w moV5XswuuILZYlgZT+p8IBI= =P8hk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
