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With my earliest computers, I kept buying laser printers with more RAM than the computer attached to them (I did subsequently upgrade the computers). I still remember what a strange and amazing thing it was when I first had a computer with 1G of RAM.


> With my earliest computers, I kept buying laser printers with more RAM than the computer attached to them (I did subsequently upgrade the computers).

I always though it was funny that the original Apple LaserWriters had more RAM and a faster processor than the computers they were attached to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserWriter


“I always though it was funny that the original Apple LaserWriters had […] a faster processor than the computers they were attached to”

So did the Commodore 64. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1571 had a 2MHz 6502, the Commodore 64 a 1MHz 6510. It was sometimes used to speed up programs (https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/4692/obsc...)


Muy first computer work 1GB ram was in 2000. It was given to me by work as it was a heavy UNIX server that had to be replaced on contract.

I never managed to use more than half of it, as in those days it was still crazy much. The CPU was 120 MHz :)


For Postscript that was pretty much a given. Our work HP4 had more memory than any of our computers for a long while.




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