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Originally Posted by TerryH

It doesn't work exactly that way, you will see improvement, but in reality you're still lacking enough to alleviate some waiting. One thing you can't ever have enough of is RAM. A machine bought today will have 4 or 8 GB on average. You can't hardly buy a desktop computer with less than 2 GB.

First time I purchased RAM was in 1991, $50 for a single MB stick, that's megabyte. My 386sx came with 2 with room for 4.... whoopee!. A GB at those prices would cost $50,000. My first hard drive was 103mb and all my friends ogled it. Consensus was it would never get filled. Only a couple years later I had golf games that took twice that space.

Early computing was expensive and hard to keep current. Things are noticably slowing down as one would imagine. Technology gets exponentionally harder to improve upon as things get smaller and smaller to fit on the same wafers.

Yeah, my first PC was a Tandy 1000 TX w/286 on an XT bus running at 8MHz. It had 640k of RAM. My first hard drive was 32 MB. I think I have a calculator with more RAM than that hard drive space. I've got a relatively measly system by todays standards with 4 Gigs of RAM and 500 Gigs of HD Space, but it does what I need quite well. I only paid $270 for the Comp (already had a good monitor).