Re: OT: In Praise of Dos-Based Word Processors

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

At 15/05/2014 13:50, you wrote:
> Since my first hard drive (for the NorthStar Horizon) in 1983, hard
> drive prices have dropped one-million-fold. That's not a guess, it's
> a calculation based on the $1,000 I paid then for 20 megabytes vs.
> the $100 you pay now for 2 TB.
That's already a bargain compared to the reported $3500 Apple charged
for a 5MB HD, or $700,000 per MB, in 1981. The hard drive was then
already 25 years old, so you could get even more impressive factors
by delving back to the first manufactured models and adjusting prices.

What about RAM prices? Haven't they followed similar patterns?
Processor operations have been priced in various ways - - would there
be illustrations there?