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What are you doing with that 1.5GB of RAM?

Running Slack.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-18 12:35 AM | Reply

Great cartoon at the link.

Has the increased capacity and power of computers actually benefited Americans, or just the tech billionaires?


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-18 12:37 AM | Reply

I bought a 2K RAM expander for my VIC-20 but there was no software available to use it.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-08-18 12:43 AM | Reply

@#3

Back in the late 1970's, I had a computer (assembled from a kit) with 64k of RAM. The CPU ran at the astounding speed of 2MHz.

It ran CP/M. A CP/M that I had to reload each time I started the PC up. (i.e., there was no disk drive to boot from)

I was able to convince it to communicate over the modem, at a whopping 300 bits per second.

So much fun back then, exploring.


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-18 01:01 AM | Reply

1.6tb cpu ram, 320gb gpu ram in this cluster, just for foundational model training experiments.

#5 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-08-18 08:39 AM | Reply

1.5pb shared storage, 122 tb shared flash storage...

#6 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-08-18 08:40 AM | Reply

#6

Gee, can I be your friend....

#7 | Posted by South_American at 2026-08-19 10:13 PM | Reply

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