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Originally Posted by RStar
[old man voice] Eh, sonny, what's that? Buy a new computer you say? Why, back in my day my computer had a whopping 256 mb hard drive and 4 whole megs of ram! I remember taking the 4- 1 mb sticks out and upgrading to 4- 4 megs, a huge 16 megs of ram! Both ways, in the snow! Barefoot! [/old man voice]
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The very first computer I owned had 2 Kb (not Mb) of RAM: you upgraded it by plugging in a 16 Kb module. If you wanted a program, you typed it in, line by line and if you wanted to save it, you backed it up to a cassette tape.