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Looks like the 2 MB module has 64 chips, so 256 kbit DRAM ICs. The cutting edge at the time was 1 Mbit, or four times denser. > January 6 1984 - In Tokyo, Ja
by retrac 4y ago
Looks like the 2 MB module has 64 chips, so 256 kbit DRAM ICs. The cutting edge at the time was 1 Mbit, or four times denser.
> January 6 1984 - In Tokyo, Japan, Hitachi announces it has developed the world's first memory chip with the capacity of 1 megabit.
Even with old tech, I can't shake the feeling that ~20 million transistors on a single board was and still is magic.
- jacquesm 4y agoIt was. They had one of these at LVL Rocom, computewise it totally blew away anything that I had gotten my hands on until that point including some really nice mainframes (i/o wise obviously not). 3 MIPS in something that very comfortably fit on your desk. Now it seems incredibly slow but in 1986 it was unbelievably fast.