A few bits of RAM

The growth of RAM is one of the things that boggles my mind. The available RAM of an average computer has increased many magnitudes during my days as a computer nerd and now I have far more RAM than I dared dream to have harddisk space back in the 90’s.

1966_1_1

Over at computerhistory.org, they have a nice article on a memory circuit from 1966 with a whopping 16 bits of storage – two whole bytes! This really puts things in perspective!

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