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.
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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!
