A trip down memory lane
Scott Janousek just twittered about how you can pick up a 16GB USB memory stick for $30 these days. It made me think back to the first piece of memory I actually purchased. It was an upgrae for my Amiga 500 – an extra half-meg. It cost $75 for that 512 kilobytes.
I couldn’t help extrapolating that into the present. At $150 per megabyte, that’s $153,600 per gigabyte. Or over $2.4 million dollars for that 16GB stick that you can pick up at Circuit City for the price of a decent meal. Yikes.
Sounds insane, but then you dig up ads like this:
Of course, that’s a disk, but shows you how things have changed.