[sdiy] returning to the chronic disappointment of the 1496...

[Ullrich Peter]

Hi!

This must have been around 1984 or 1985. There was a chip crises. The 64kbit DRAMs especially were very expensive and also the Z80s were rare and expensive.
One company in Austria even bought the Sinclair ZX81 computers for about 200$ for extracting the Z80 chips as they were easier to get at the same price.
Two years later you coould buy the Z80 for 3$...  Near the end of the crises I was happy to buy 8 pieces of the 64kbit DRAMs for 48$ (for all)...

Ciao
Peter

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Von: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl [synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] im Auftrag von Ingo Debus [igg.debus at t-online.de]
Gesendet: Freitag, 15. Jänner 2010 16:23
An: Synth DIY
Betreff: Re: [sdiy] returning to the chronic disappointment of the 1496...

Am 15.01.2010 um 01:41 schrieb Tom Farrand:

> No, a Z-80A I paid $200
> for was "prohibitively expensive" when I was making < $8/hour!

Huh? When was that?

Ingo
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