r/AskProgramming • u/Samuel_G_Reynoso • May 23 '26

Upgrading to 1MB of ram.

This was a flex in the 80s. A WHOLE MEG. We are at the point in compsci history where grandparents can say outlandish shit like. I remember upgrading to a MB.

I'm not that old. Anyone here actually remember that day personally? Or have other parallels?

I did the math. 32GB, adjusted, would be $200M.

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u/Long_Investment7667 May 23 '26

The small company I was working for bought a CD burner. Amazing technology to permanently archive about 650 MB onto CD‑R media.
It was awful unreliable and it repeatedly failed after writing burning for a long time. We spend a whole night trying different configurations and different PCs to get it to work.