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Title: 1GB computer memory physical size in 1980 and 2009
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Published: Nov 25, 2009
Author: Simon Voinea
Post Date: 2009-11-25 10:36:18 by freepatriot32
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Keywords: 1GB, computer memory, physical size
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The huge sized 1GB memory is from IBM built for mainframes in late 1970’s. The same 1GB memory comes in a micro-chip nowadays!
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#1. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
My, now way out of date, Macintosh Dual G-4 Processor Tower has more raw computing power than the mainframe that 1970's memory was destined for. It is faster and has a higher throughput. The applications I'm running were undreamed of, except at Medialab, in the 70's. The speed with which computer technology has evolved is simply stunning when you take it all in. I've been using it since the first Mac in the mid 80's and the Mac I am using now bears only a slight resemblance to that first machine with it's 512K of memory and single sided hard floppy - with no hard drive available at all.
But it's almost all used for eye candy, and I think to some extent all that eye candy is deadening of kids' imagination. When you think about what most people use computers for, most of the time -- word processing and email, not A/V work -- all that computing power is total overkill. As it happens, I too have a dual processor G4 mac. But I sometimes find myself missing my old Mac II, the SE/30, and even my 48k Apple II+. They booted faster, for one thing. Once every blue moon I'll fire up an emulator and play Wizardry.
I have to agree - as neat as it is for what I really use a computer for it IS overkill. I am not a gamer nor do I download and watch videos. My old Mac 512K did everything that I really need a computer to do - although I don't think it would support my Browser and the color monitor, which we now take for granted, is nice.
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#9. To: Original_Intent (#1)
The speed with which computer technology has evolved is simply stunning when you take it all in.
#11. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#9)
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