WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 WC> My 2X Creative CD-ROM - sound card still works and I bought it in
 WC> 94 or 95 at 245 dollars! Ouch.

Yeah,  ouch!  That's a lot of money...

I don't think I spent more than $30-40 on any cdrom drive,  probably less
than that in most cases,  and some I ended up with as salvage.

 WC> Of course I also bought a 72 pin 16M FPM parity SIMM RAM stick at
 WC> that same price around then!

Got two of those yesterday -- $9.00 each.

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