How much RAM y'all got?

[FL350innh]

Ram is cheap...
512m DDR 333MHZ pc2700 DIMM $85.00 each

not pc2100 ram..

You're correct it is......

512m DDR 266MHZ pc2100 DIMM $79.00 Each

Cheap now compared to what it used to be a year ago....

[tgpo]

Back when I bought my 3 256 chips they were just under $100 a piece. Looking at the prices of them now makes me cry

[FL350innh]

Back when I bought my 3 256 chips they were just under $100 a piece. Looking at the prices of them now makes me cry

This'll tell you how long I've been around... I paid $600.00 for 32mb or ram on my MAC Color classic II! Ouch!

[tgpo]

Back when I bought my 3 256 chips they were just under $100 a piece. Looking at the prices of them now makes me cry

This'll tell you how long I've been around... I paid $600.00 for 32mb or ram on my MAC Color classic II! Ouch!

Glad I was more into playing in trees and climbing crap when prices were that high.

[g_shocker182]

G_shocker,

Yeah, 512 PC2100, CompUSA, Best Buy, like 90 bucks, more like 50-60 on rebate week, last weeks shopper mag, anyhow. Shop around.

I think i'll look at ebay next time I'm shopping around for more (soon ). They seem to have good deals (pc2100 512, $50) from respectable persons (i.e. 99% good feedback).

[Craig Tucker]

1 GB DDR PC2700

[sterno]

This'll tell you how long I've been around... I paid $600.00 for 32mb or ram on my MAC Color classic II!

That sounds about right. I remember paying around $100 to upgrade an LCII-type machine from 4MB to 8MB. I also remember how much faster the machine was after that upgrade.

[Craig Tucker]

In 1988 we had this large computer at work, the size of a wardrobe. Can't remember what it was called, could probrably find out though. I remember my boss telling me that the memory for it worked out at £1 per Kilobyte. So thats just over a thousand pounds a meg.

Hey I am rich, my 1GB of ram should be worth a cool million

[g_shocker182]

I remember 32mbs being ~$70, but you guys blew me back with that $100 per 4mb!

[indolikaa]

I remember 32mbs being ~$70, but you guys blew me back with that $100 per 4mb!

I remember putting in a requisition for a memory upgrade way back in 1990/1991. The request was for a single 64MB memory module that was (if memory serves) a Fast-Page SIMM. The lowest bidder came in at just over $5000. There was only one facility in the world that could produce the module.

The procurement officer could not understand why ANYBODY would need 64MB of memory in a computer?!

[EddyH]

That odd 190.x mb report is probably because the video memory is being shared from the main RAM... would I guess right that it's an onboard VGA on your motherboard?
A quick example... 1024x768 video mode at 24 bits per pixel needs about 2.25mb... now try the maths for yourself. 1.5mb sounds like maybe 800x600 at 24bit.. possibly if its still in the 190 range but you dont know the decimal it could be 800x600 at 32bit, 1024x768 at 16... am i close to your settings?

This machine is at 256mb and it could do with just a little more as it's not well optimised (just had to up the swap from 512 to 1024 for a bit of breathing room)... thinking of taking it to 512mb, it'll only cost £25 including shipping... and i remember when a half meg upgrade was cheap at £99 what's that now? Would I still be able to swap it for a snickers bar, or is it not enough any more?
I also remember when going from 64 to 96mb gave a noticable speed boost in general for win98 and especially some games, but 96mb to 128 did nothing for the system at all... then came along file sharing and video editing and chucked that rule away

My usual machine had 192mb and was hurting slightly with the tasks I threw at it.. jumped at a special offer on 256mb sticks (probably £50 at the time!) and took it to the nice, but strange figure of 448mb (256 + 128 + 64, so much for the law of matching capacities), where it still resides. Rarely use virtual memory any more unless something heavy's going on.. just in case, the swap is fixed at 576mb... nothing's come close to filling that yet, so it would really fly, 24/7, with a gig of chips inside.

And then there's the laptops with 4mb and 20mb respectively

Just for reference, those are PC100 (this machine), PC133 (other) on a 100mhz mainboard, and 30pin (soldered) gawd-knows-what and 72pin FPM (soldered 4 + 16 expansion) One day I will own a DDR machine... one day... right now, it doesn't seem to make much trouble not having one.

(because I can't dance all that well)

[gmatov]

Last time I bought RAM that seemed like a bargain was maybe 9 years ago, another 8 meg, doubled my daughter's RAM, only cost 200 USD.

And, now we cry when the spot market goes to 60 from 50 for 512, me included. Best yet is the price of the old stuff. 100 costs more than 133, and I don't know if you can even buy the original, pseudo-named PC66. There never was a name for the "66" RAM till the 100 came out, it was just tagged with it as a differentiator, if that's a word.
i, personally, have probs with PC2100, PC2400, etc. My board seems to not like it, even tho' the manual says it will take it.

Kinda takes you back to 40 meg HDDs, don't it?

[indolikaa]

Kinda takes you back to 40 meg HDDs, don't it?

Ah! The Winchester hard drive. We're talking the full-height 5¼" drive, right?

[gmatov]

EddyH,

I have a couple machines with on board graphics. I don't think they default to 1.5, or 2 meg "shared memory", more like 16 megs shared, which you can set to more, my own being at 64. Whether this means anything, I do not know, as I don't do games.

[FL350innh]

Kinda takes you back to 40 meg HDDs, don't it?

Ah! The Winchester hard drive. We're talking the full-height 5¼" drive, right?

One of the more popular drives about 1991 was the seagate MFM 40 mb drive. I got one for my 286 Packard Hell so I could play Leisure Suite Larry off the disc! With 4mb of ram I was a computing god! Look at us now...

[Hardcoreruss]

512 mb here

[EddyH]

Seagate MFM, peh Connor ruled your asses

Hmm, I wonder if my long-time-no-see school friend still has that 5.25-inch 2gb "Bigfoot" drive running?

I saw a full-height drive in the computer museum at uni Can't remember if it was 5 or 8 inches, but it was pretty big, somehow still looked designed for internal mounting. "Came in 5 and 10mb capacities - the height of 1982 technology!"
Probably cost five figures, too.

[Greenspock]

512MB but soon to be more!

WOW... I remember when 640k was the SH!T

[stiltman]

WOW... I remember when 640k was the S**T

TRS-80 Model 1 64k

I then added an expansion bus and uped it to 128k

[Hardcoreruss]

I remember buying 8mb of ram at school for £80 and thinking I had got a great deal.

[Greenspock]

TRS-80 Model 1 64k

Don't forget the Timex Sinclair 1000!

A full 2k

For those of you who've never seen one...
http://www.outlawnet.com/~jboatno4/ts1000.jpg

[ChrisX]

All of my computers is 256 megs of RAM except for the Win98 computer is 64 megs of RAM.

[EddyH]

Timex Sinclair 1000 - a disgrace to the noble ZX81 that gave it birth all except the much-needed double memory capacity that is..

Had the first home 3D games apart from Battlezone and Tempest.... refreshing at (literally) ~0.1fps in 80x64 mono rez.

I liked the stories I heard where people managed to *software* hack that little monochrome, silent, character-mode-only beast into showing colour pixel-graphics with sound.. the trick was in how the main CPU was also responsible for all the raw video output! woo..

[burna3000]

512MB PC2100 DDR here as well

[SLICK RICK]

768 PC2100 DDR on one system and 1GB PC3200 DDR on my new system.

SLICK RICK