stackyFACTSBe profoundly grateful for your bloated modern web browsers that casually eat gigabytes of RAM for breakfast.
Be profoundly grateful for your bloated modern web browsers that casually eat gigabytes of RAM for breakfast. Back in 1957, magnetic core memory was the pinnacle of tech. Upgrading a system with enough memory to simply store one low-resolution photograph would cost you roughly $5,000, and it would take up the physical space of a large closet. Today, that amount of digital real estate is basically given away for free inside a musical greeting card.
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