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On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 14:39:28 +1000, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following:

>
>No, it's part of the end-user cost of the BBC Micro model B. What we want to
>know is the cost in 1981 of buying a 16K memory chip, without the rest of
>the computer.
>
	1981? I doubt anyone could by "a 16K[byte] memory chip". More likely it
was a bank of 8 16k 1-bit chips, or some other combination like four 4k x
4-bit wide chips...

	I think the memory expansion on my Amiga -- around 1987 -- took 32 or
64 chips to make 2MB; I think they were 256k x 1-bit chips. The expansion
chassis cost around $480, and the memory chips were another $400.
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