Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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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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Veteran Member
Join Date: May 2004
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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. |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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Thanks Kick!
(But can you plug an Atari joystick into your pamphlet?) ... |
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Another way to look at it Drew is that it's more than your average tv actors memory capacity for lines.
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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For comparison, this thread was 54 kB before I made this post... excluding external images, stylesheets, and JavaScript.
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Veteran Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Leiden, the Netherlands
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I think the memory on a typical RFID-chip could be in this ballpark.
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¡Damned!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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> this big* <
*not to scale |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Here's another analog...
The AppleNova logotype would fit twice into 16 kB with almost no space to spare: = 8155 B = 7.96 kB The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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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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Avast!
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: New York?
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