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The first computer that I remember in my family was a PC Jr with either 64 or 128KB of memory. We had some variant of the Apple II at school in the computer lab
by khedoros1 9y ago
The first computer that I remember in my family was a PC Jr with either 64 or 128KB of memory. We had some variant of the Apple II at school in the computer lab (I'd guess the Apple IIe, with 64-1MB of RAM). I remember in the early 90s having a PC, with the memory going up through the single megabyte range, then into the 10s as we upgraded. Maybe 8MB in 1993 and 32MB by 1997? My parents gave me my own computer in 1999 with 96MB of RAM. I think I upgraded it to either 256 or 512MB around 2002 or 2003.
Disk storage grew along with it. Hundreds of KB with the earliest machines I used (on floppies and cartridges), hundreds of MB in the 90s (and like 1.1GB when Dad added a second hard drive to that machine!!), 6.4GB in my own first one, and so on.
It's amusing to think of my son saying things like "I've used a computer with only 4GB of RAM!" when he's older.