Originally Posted by itsky
Heck, I just paid $40 for a 32GB USB thumb drive (which I filled with music for the coupe). I do remember those $1/meg days (16-17 yrs/ago).
Actually, it was only 2001 when RAM broke below the $1 per MB mark. Wow, it seems like it should have been longer than that ago. 16 - 17 years ago, RAM was selling for $30 - $40 per MB.
So, the 4GB that I paid $36 for comes out to $0.00879 per MB and just a mere 9 years ago 4GB if you could buy it would have cost $4,096.00. It is totally amazing how much the cost of technology has gone down just in the last decade.
Here is a link to historical memory prices that I found.
Memory Prices 1957 to 2010
I think Moore's Law is on steroids. LOL