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History of PC pricing from 1989 - 2000

Oct 20, 2004 12:35AM PDT

I need help finding pricing for systems, the RAM amount used when the systems first appeared. The table below is what I am trying to comoplete. Excel does not paste well into this format. Is there a site that has pricing and RAM for a 1989 486dx 50 MHz machine?

Thanks,

astiller

Year Model Speed RAM Cost

1989 486DX 50 MHz
1993 Pentium 66 MHz
1995 Pentium Pro 150 MHz
1997 Pentium II 200 MHz
1999 Pentium III 450 MHz
2000 Pentium 4 1.4 GHz

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Re: History of PC pricing from 1989 - 2000
Oct 20, 2004 1:29AM PDT

More than likely those systems used 30 Simms Ram as my 486DX4-100 unit took 78 Simms Ram. I worked on a number of 486 units with the 30 Simms Ram (just threw out a whole slew of them two weeks ago, btw) and 8MB ran over $30 per stick and had to be purchased as EDO/pairs by 1994. I don't know the original price in 1989, but assume it was much higher at that time because the 78 Simms was priced about the same $30 by 1994.

TONI

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When I went to work for Greene Township
Oct 20, 2004 7:38AM PDT

PA in Sept 1994 its new computer had FOUR megabytes of RAM. Accounting program [Peachtree] wouldn't run. Added 4 MB for $200. $50 per MB!!!!!!!! They were 72 [or was it 78 pin???] pin Fast Page Mode SIMMS. EDO came out about that time.

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Re: History of PC pricing from 1989 - 2000
Oct 21, 2004 12:08AM PDT

A 1985 PC Magazine
DRAM Chips (9 required) 64K 9 for $20
128K for IBM AT $15 each (9 required)
256K for IBM AT $15 each (strange..same as 128K).

A 1992 PC Magazine shows
1meg 80ns Simms selling for $35
4meg 70ns Simms selling for $135 (30 pin)

1993 Magazine shows

1meg 80ns SIMMs $39
4meg 80ns SIMMs $140 70ns $149 60ns $159

1997 PC Mag shows
168Pin DIMMs 8meg $50 16meg $94 32meg $179 64meg $429 128meg $950 256meg $1925

1999 used PC133 SDRAM at this time These are my costs for Resale.
32meg SDRAM $42-$49
64meg SDRAM $97
128MB Sdram $125


2000
The first P4's used only RDRAM which costs about $200 per 128meg, extremely expensive and over priced.