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ceejayozyesterday at 1:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

In the same world 8GB used to be unfathomably huge not that long ago?

Hell, an 8GB hard drive was unfathomable when I was a kid in the 90s. I remember getting a 30 megabyte drive for our Mac LC.


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trollbridgeyesterday at 3:23 PM

The first computer I ever used had 512K, which was a great deal back then, and by the time I was old enough to learn to type it had 10MB disk too.

My childhood best friend and neighbour had the same kind of computer except they only had something like 384K of memory and I tried to convince them their computer was broken when it didn't count up all the way.

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mmmlinuxyesterday at 2:12 PM

And that Mac LC only had a max of 10MB of ram.