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		lwhi 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM j... I've just remembered a similar situation in 1993! A Japanese factory that made epoxy resin for chips was destroyed and the price of SIMM chips skyrocketed (due to lack of availability). I remember being very upset that I wasn't going to be able to upgrade to 4MB.

hmng 8 days ago [–]

There should be a t-shirt for that ;-) I remember paying insane prices that year.

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