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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 12 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Going back to the 90s when a few megabytes was hundreds of dollars.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 15 points 14 hours ago

That'd be great if software still had the same small footprint it had back then.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

We added 4 megs to our 486 and it was $80 a meg so $320 for the upgrade. That was back when hard drives where a little over a dollar per meg.

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Are you sure about hard drives at $1 per meg at that time?
It sounds way to cheap.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Yes, you are probably right. I think I am thinking of when I built my Pentium 100 and it was $360 for a 360 meg hard drive.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

Or 80s, where it was kilobytes.