Ah, the 1988 DRAM shortages where 256K DRAM costed more than $10 a piece.

specialist · on Oct 17, 2016

Protectionist measures fueled by rising sun Japan hysteria engineered by Micron. Stagnated PC industry. Postponed transition to 386, stomped OS/2 launch.

I still haven't forgiven Micron. Never forget!

baldfat · on Oct 17, 2016

OS/2 shouldn't have failed!!!! To bad DOS and Windows apps ran better in VM then native OS/2 apps that would just hang 10% of the time!!!! Another reason I loved my Amiga!

yuhong · on Oct 17, 2016

Yea, that OS/2 2.0 fiasco is one of my favorite topics.

yuhong · on Oct 17, 2016

And we still have Micron today. They were suffering years of losses until the DRAM market began to recover in 1987. They even bought Elpida too.

mgkimsal · on Oct 17, 2016

1990 I paid $150 for 512k ram pack.