512 megs of garbage
I just tossed 512MB RAM into the garbage. Really, that’s half a gig of RAM. In the garbage. Because really, what on earth I’m I going to do with it. No one would ever upgrade to that these days. And I have it because it’s all that came in my wife’s PC which I just upgraded to 2Gigs of RAM.
It’s really hard to wrap our minds around how fast thing change with electronics. It really hit me when I remembered that just 10 years ago, in 1998, I bought a laptop before going off to college. I had to choose between getting 4 or 8 MEGS or RAM. Really, 8 MEGS was considered a lot. That’s as much as the laptop could handle.
And you know what getting 8 MEGs cost me: a place to live. I spent so much money on the upgrades for my laptop that I didn’t have enough money left to afford an apartment. Instead I slept in a tent, outside of the city, in the National Forest. No joke.
Now, just 10 years later, a stick of RAM that is 64 times larger than all the RAM in my laptop is so worthless I don’t even think twice before throwing it in the garbage.
By that rate in another 10 years I’ll be tossing 128 GIG RAM chips in the garbage. Globber.
I can sooo relate! In 1994 I had a Zenith Z-note and at the time I think I spent well over $400 for 8 Megs which is now, apparently selling for $38 (http://tinyurl.com/cw2glv) bucks, which by the way is highway robbery. I just upgraded my wifes travel mate to 2Gb for $32 including shipping from http://crucial.com. What did I do with the 512 stick that came out of it?? I tossed it in the garbage, shaking my head over the fact that what once was a months rent, or for me a cheap car that would last a year or two, is now garbage.
Not cool, man. Not cool. You should’ve donated it.