From: Chuck Thacker 
To: Ed Lazowska 
Subject: Re: Quick historical question

Back in the days when dinosaurs walked
the earth (some of us still do) ...
- The display was 606 X 808 x 1.
- I remember being overjoyed the day
  (I think it was in '70) that memory
  dropped below a penny a bit.  This
  opened the world in wonderful ways.
It is now at $25/8*10**6 bits, or
3*10**-6 dollars per bit.