Date   : Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:09:54 +0100
From   : Tim Fardell <tim.fardell@...>
Subject: Re: Has 1 April come early this year ?

Andrew Benham wrote:
> An Acorn computer from the early 1970s with 128MB RAM...
> In the _mid_ 1970s, I paid £12 for 1k x 8 static RAM (that was
> 8 chips of 1k x 1).  So 128MB would have cost me £1.5 million
> (excluding any quantity discount).
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ye-Oldie-Acorn-BBC-Microcomputer_W0QQitemZ8786474508QQcategoryZ4193QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
> 
> Looks like a Master Compact from the 1980s to me...

Look at the end date of the auction :-)