Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Quick buy more memory for your computer now !

16kEnough said. This memory card will turn your computer into a working giant !

These 16Kb RAM card, expandable to 512Kb running at a blazing 4MHz will let you open a tiny text file if you can somehow get it to work for only USD$495 !

For those non-techies, this is a very antiqued advertisement for a memory module for a very old computer, Cromemco Z-1/Z-2.

In comparision against today's computer, 16Kb of memory if an miserable amount. Nowadays, most new computers are equipped with 1GB of memory or more. Just how much is that?

1GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes
16Kb = 16,384 bytes


That's a difference of
65536 times. Woah!

Also it's running at 4MHz. Today's commercially available memory modules runs upwards to 1333MHz. That's 333 times faster !

Why does today's computer uses so much memory? Ask Microsoft !

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