Blake Patterson<p>In 1983, my parents paid $299 for a 32KB memory expansion board for my TI-99/4A.</p><p>Last year, MicroCenter gave me 32GB of DDR5 SDRAM -- for free -- with the purchase of a Ryzen 7 7700X CPU.</p><p>That's just over 1 million times more memory (and it's a bit faster, too.) That's $313 million worth of TI RAM expansions cards, in 1983 dollars. </p><p>You'd need quite a few desks to support a TI system of that configuration...</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RAM</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>memory</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/IYKYK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IYKYK</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/TI99" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TI99</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/sidecar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sidecar</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/systemarchitecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>systemarchitecture</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/PC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PC</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hardware</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/computinghistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computinghistory</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintagecomputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputers</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintagetech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintagetech</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MicroCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MicroCenter</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/performance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>performance</span></a></p>