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When, or more importantly where, in the 90s was a stick of ram worth a month's of salary? IIRC they were in the several $100s range of price and surely sold for
by ido 7y ago
When, or more importantly where, in the 90s was a stick of ram worth a month's of salary? IIRC they were in the several $100s range of price and surely sold for less used.
- dingaling 7y agoIn the UK in the mid-90s. I was well paid at the time on £10k or thereabouts gross, so about £650 net per month An office PC was at least two or three times that price. Despite being a 'computer whizz' I only had a Spectrum 48k at home until 1995. PCs really were high-end goods.
- ido 7y agoI'm surprised, my first job was in 2001 (so only a few years later than you) in Israel and despite being an 18 year old earning roughly minimum wage my salary was similar or higher (~4000-5000 ils gross per month, according to today's exchange rate that would be ~£800-1k & at that level I paid next to no income tax). A "good wage" even in the late '90s/early '00s would be at least 2x as much (programmers were commonly earning 20k ils per month in the late 90s). I would have guessed UK wages were higher than Israeli ones.