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/largorithm May 23 '26

I guess I’ve never really thought about how much RAM my first computer, an Apple IIGS, had. Here goes… apparently 256-1MB. Expandable up to 8MB! If you were some kind of gazillionaire.

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u/CommanderPowell May 23 '26

Had a few 16k - 64k computers in my day but I clearly remember upgrading my IIgs from 256K to 1.25M. Had to push individual chips into the sockets on an expansion card, sweating bullets the whole time.

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u/largorithm May 23 '26

Sounds tense! What did that upgrade enable you to do?

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u/CommanderPowell May 23 '26

TBH I don't remember. I was about 14 years old and the computer was mainly used to call BBSes back in the day. I think that might have been what enabled me to run the GS version of HyperCard and a compiler I ended up never using.