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I had a Mac LC with 4MB of RAM when I was a kid. It ran System 7 and was slightly too underpowered to run a web browser. I think you needed at least 6 MB to g
by jandrese 3y ago
I had a Mac LC with 4MB of RAM when I was a kid. It ran System 7 and was slightly too underpowered to run a web browser. I think you needed at least 6 MB to get Netscape 1.0 to run. Even if you did get it to run it would be painfully slow, especially if you're connected via a 14.4 modem as was common at the time. Loading a single image could take a full minute or more.
Rule of thumb for Z-Modem transfers on a 14.4 modem was 100kB of data per minute.
- sk5t 3y ago14 minutes for an entire diskette’s content was magically fast, for the brief window of 14.4’s relevance.
- bombcar 3y ago“Time to download your storage” is an interesting metric, and it certainly takes longer to fill a terabyte drive from a 1gb/s connection that filling floppies with a modem.
- poulsbohemian 3y agoI'm trying to recall how I did this - maybe RAM disk? Wasn't much of a concern at first, as you could run something like lynx in your dial up terminal and there weren't many images on those early web sites.