On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: > >> The RAM was presumably the only difference between the two models, so >> as long as Model A cost at least £100 (which seems likely; a bit of >> quick Googling suggests that it may have been of the order of £400), a >> £100 difference can plausibly be called the price of the RAM. > > Hah! I read MRAB as saying the *RAM* came in two models, "Model A RAM" > and "Model B RAM". I wondered why they didn't just say "16K" versus "32K", > but it was the 1980s, who knows why people did anything back then... > > But no, you can't put the £100 difference down to the price of the RAM even > if RAM were the only difference between the two model Micros. There's not > enough information to tell how much of that £100 represents the cost of > RAM, and how much is pure profit on the part of the vendor, Acorn. In fact, > there were considerable differences apart from RAM:
I don't care about "pure profit on the part of the vendor" - that's part of the end-user cost of RAM. But if my presumption is incorrect, there's no way to put a price on just the RAM. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list