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A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
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In 1977 69 KB was huge memory. First home PC's from 1980 and 1981 like ZX81 they have 1 KB of memory. One.
The Commodore 64 came out in 1982 and famously had 64KB of memory.
Commodore VIC-20 came out in 1980 with 20KB as well.
20KB of ROM and 5KB of RAM, though that was expandable!
TIL! I've been living a lie for decades thinking the 20 in VIC-20 was the amount of RAM like the 64 in C64 meant the amount of RAM. I only owned the C64, never a VIC-20.
I could never get my Zx81 to save data tape.
Not really, mainframes could have 8 megs of core in the 1960s.