Hrm, finding my old "computer history" spreadsheet, I had each year off by one: 1995 and 1998. And of course I had remembered wrong, it wasn't a pair of 32 MB SIMMs, it was a pair totaling 32 MB... (Damned memory - mine, not the SIMMs...) So I upgraded my system from 16 MB to 48 MB for $500 in mid 1995.
In early 1998, I built a brand-new Pentium II system, even buying everything except the CPU and RAM, waiting for the Deschutes 333 MHz Pentium II to become available. And looking at my spreadsheet again, the $250 128 MB DIMM was a year later to bring me to 256 MB total. Yup, in 1998 I paid $500 for that first 128 MB DIMM!
In early 1998, I built a brand-new Pentium II system, even buying everything except the CPU and RAM, waiting for the Deschutes 333 MHz Pentium II to become available. And looking at my spreadsheet again, the $250 128 MB DIMM was a year later to bring me to 256 MB total. Yup, in 1998 I paid $500 for that first 128 MB DIMM!