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Computer museum: Intern computer memory

Status: public -- Last revision: April 12, 2001

Internal computer memory .

Measuring the amount of internal computer memory luckely poses few, if any, problems. In the tables below personal computers were not taken into account.

[cumulative internal memory - linear] [cumulatief intern memory - logarithmic]

 INTERNAL MEMORY (LINEAR AND LOGARITHMIC)

The table below shows the decrease of memory cost in time. Included:

yearsize in Mbytestype
19790.0625 Mb64Kb Intel memory for PDP
19842 Mbmemory for Vax 11/750
19862 Mbmemory for VME bus
19898 Mb 8 x 1 Mb SIMM's
199564 Mb4 x 16 Mb SIMM's
199664 Mb2 x 32 Mb SIMM's

[cost BEF/Mbyte - linear] [Cost BEF/Mbyte - logarithmic]

Cost (BEF)/Mbyte (LINEAR AND LOGARITHMIC)
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