Re: Each memory cost


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Posted by Steve on 12:39:09 2009/06/23

In Reply to: Re: Enough whining about cost! posted by Steve


Then each board was 1k. It cost $5,000 in 1960 dollars. That equals about $35,000 in 2008 dollars. There was a whopping 13k in each Univac or about $546,000 in today's dollars. It was about $5 million per megabyte in 1960. Today that megabyte costs about 2 cents.

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