Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!border-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!border-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:06:39 +0000 User-Agent: NewsTap/5.6.3 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:O309nFECNS/s0WOhB/SdHgufosY= Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.apple2.programmer Followup-To: comp.sys.raspberry-pi Subject: Re: When Apple Sold 4K of RAM for $1,298 and Called It Personal Computing Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Michael J. Mahon References: Message-ID: <8LydnV5AJc_iBSn0nZ2dnZfqnPidnZ2d@giganews.com> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:06:39 +0000 Lines: 14 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-rArgDNpjvnH/bK18MBWMPr6XuxmMMfIKoQndKINzbM5qAMLc3ACItybgvqKvzciXZ2AUp/b+XA5VS3N!KHAf64pAKXq33cfOpesDjw/juFoP+JBCgc0V0I2XPSJlUkuoD1ubc10O+2qMGFU4ZA+j+EHu+2KM X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.apple2:49263 comp.sys.apple2.programmer:6345 MummyChunk wrote: > > The numbers are what really grab you, though. $1,298 for a 4K Apple II, > and if you want to move up the memory ladder, the price gets serious in a hurry. The topic is a bit misleading, since the supporting documents list 4K of RAM for $100, just slightly more than I paid in 1981. The real kicker is the (system) -(board) price delta. That’s quite a chunk of change for a case, keyboard, and power supply! -- -michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://michaeljmahon.com