Classic Episode: What is a Byte? (Remastered)
Kopec Explains Software
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The Evolution of Memory
The original Macintosh had 400-kilobyte floppy disks and 128 kilobytes of RAM. In the 1990s, it would be normal for a computer to have tens of megabytes of RAM. And then we look today about 20, 25 years later, and here we are with terabytes of storage. It's really been an incredible increase, and it's enabled all kinds of new applications.
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