Sorry guys... no sympathy here
When I first started building rigs ram was going for somewhere in the neighborhood of $90 for 1MB SIMMs. that was for 120 nanosecond, if you wanted the good stuff - the 80 nanosecond, the cost went up to about $130 per 1MB SIMM.
Extrapolate that out now to DDR3 or 5 and what we're paying for memory is dirt cheap
20MB HDD - $400.
I could go on and on.... but I won't