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I remember when 128MB RAM sticks were $400
I remember expanding my Amiga with 512KB to 1MB Fast RAM and later going crazy with another two megabyte Slow RAM.
I remember my dad’s friend upgrading our PC clone to 640K. He used a soldering iron.
I remember when computers had no memory and the storage was on punch cards made from mammoth leather that we had to tan ourselves after spending our weekends hunting the mammoth with spears. Also we carved our code by hand on stone tablets. Young people these days have it easy.
I slept in my first computer - and worked as verbal RAM (first VRAM!) 28 hours a day !
"..and when you tell this to young people today, they won't believe you !" - Monty Python.
“Stone” tablets? Luxury. Ours were dried mammoth dung.
You had one job.
Mentioning punch cards had me, but you blew it!
Punch cards. The “true” PC era.
And we wore the tanned leather on our belts, which was the style at the time