A multi user system that I bought in the mid 80's held a max of 4mb of memory and a max of 144mb hard drive. I think the memory was something like $4000 (in 80's dollars, that's close to $9000 today) for 2mb of memory. So that was just the cost of the memory. On that system by the way you could hook up 26 Wyse terminals. We had maybe 12 terminals hooked up with 2mb of memory and a 72mb hard drive. No graphics everything was pretty system. It ran accounting and job scheduling systems (some of which I actually wrote myself as a non-programmer). At the time I think dinner for two was about $35 for a nice place. Healthcare was $65 per month for the best possible plan. IIM I was a few years out of college at the time.
