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[โ€“] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I remember the stories my father told me of his early dev days... "so the mainframe we wrote the whole national social security system for had 8K of RAM".

Mine too. war stories of 16k of RAM and 20MB hard disk drives the size of washing machines.