Reply 20 of 59, by 386SX
p6889k wrote on 2020-07-24, 17:36:386SX wrote on 2020-07-24, 17:17:....the only upgrade that PC did see was the 4 simm modules for 4MB of ram.
This reminded me of the time when I was saving all my money to upgrade from 1MB to 4MB and then when i finished saving and was ready to buy the RAM, literally within days some major memory factory burned up, the prices quadrupled and I had to wait a year before it dropped back down and I could upgrade.
Eheh I understand very well that situation. I remember there were moments ram prices got incredibly high. Being already an old pc the 386 with its 30-pin simms wasn't anymore a modern ram format so prices were still high but not that much. But still I remember we got four second hand simms modules and that was like an expensive upgrade (the only one we did on that PC that would have needed much better upgrades like the bad vga and the failing hd.. 😁).
Too bad the expectations were way way higher than the real world speed differences.. basically none beside in Win 3.1 I could clearly see things got better.