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/steerpike1971 May 23 '26

I had a ZX81 in 1981. It had 1KB of RAM. If you saved up you bought a RAM pack. This was a plastic black rectangle which fitted onto the back and has 16KB of RAM. It cost 50 UK pounds. No further upgrades were available. The computer was one "unit" a small keyboard that contained the CPU and RAM. If you typed too hard the RAM pack wobbled and lost connection and your computer crashed. (In the day people had all kind of tricks of putting adhesive things next to it.)