Shortages Cause Sky-Rocketing RAM Prices

I’m not talking about 2026 and the AI RAM apocalypse, but instead talking about 1988.

It first started in 1985 with the computer industry in relative doldrums. This was the year the 16-bit Atari ST and Amiga were introduced and before PCs had put a stranglehold on the industry. As a transition period, fewer computers were sold that year and RAM prices dr…