Tom Warren

I knew RAM was being sold at market prices just like a catch-of-the-day at a seafood restaurant, but in the UK they must love really expensive lobster or something. One retailer, Curry’s Business, is selling 8GB of DDR4 for £120,000 ($159,000). If you add the UK’s VAT tax on it’s £144,000 ($190,000). I’ll take two, please.

The original Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III games are now available under the MIT license. Microsoft, Xbox, and Activision have teamed up to preserve the clever Z-Machine engine that powered the Zork games and allow students, teachers, and developers to study the code and learn from it. Microsoft has also worked with Jason Scott, from the Internet Archive, to grant this open-source license.