How Tiny is 16k?

[drewprops]

My very first computer only had 16k of memory onboard and I'm trying to come up with an example of how fantastically TINY that amount of memory is 25 years later. Many of my emails are over 16k, but I'd like to have a good example of an everyday object which has that much memory.

Any idears?
thx

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[Kickaha]

16kB = 16k char in ASCII = ~ 11 pages of text at a fairly large fontsize, no images, no typesetting.

~250 words per page, * avg 5 letters per word + 1 for the space = 1500 characters per page => ~11 pages.

So a decent pamphlet stores more than your first computer. :)

[drewprops]

Thanks Kick!
(But can you plug an Atari joystick into your pamphlet?)


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[scratt]

Another way to look at it Drew is that it's more than your average tv actors memory capacity for lines. ;)

[Brad]

For comparison, this thread was 54 kB before I made this post... excluding external images, stylesheets, and JavaScript.

[julesstoop]

I think the memory on a typical RFID-chip could be in this ballpark.

[709]

> this big* <



*not to scale

[Brad]

Here's another analog...

The AppleNova logotype would fit twice into 16 kB with almost no space to spare:

http://www.applenova.com/images/logo.applenova-2.0.png
= 8155 B = 7.96 kB

[drewprops]

Imagine my great delight when I upgraded from the Atari 600XL to the Atari 800XL... from 16k to 64k.

It's all about the hardware, baby.



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[zsummers]

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