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[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I remember the stories my father told me of his early dev days... "so the mainframe we wrote the whole national social security system for had 8K of RAM".

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Mine too. war stories of 16k of RAM and 20MB hard disk drives the size of washing machines.

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