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hnarayanan
How is it possible to make graphs that look this hideous?
molybd3num
dunno, they still have a certain charm to them, they remind me of crappy textbook graphs
floxy
I distinctly remember paying $40 per megabyte at Costco to upgrade my Cyrix 486-40 from 4MB to 8MB (maybe 1994 or so).
RetroTechie
Just checking a random webshop, most offerings are <€10/GB. That's €0.01/MB, or about 3 cups of coffee on a terrace for 1,073,741,824 bytes of RAM.

So ehm... yeah prices went up a lot. But expensive? Back in the day, I bought RAM chips clocking in at some # of Kilobytes for such money.