SCELBI memory

The SCELBI 8H uses 256×1 bit MOS RAMs.

Doing the math, it would take 134,217,728, 256×1 bit chips to equal the memory capacity of a modern 4 Gigabyte memory module. I don’t know production figures, but I strongly suspect that adding all the 256×1 bit memory chips ever made together into one system, would not equal the memory capacity of a single modern 4 Gigabyte module.

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3 Responses to “SCELBI memory”

  1. Mike says:
    August 10, 2012 at 4:19 pm

    whats more – at $15 a chip, it would cost over 2 billion dollars, just for the chips

  2. John Calande says:
    August 10, 2012 at 5:46 pm

    Hilarious.

    Hard to believe… come a long way.

  3. Mike says:
    August 10, 2012 at 10:40 pm

    there is more – if each chip was in a ceramic package that was 5/32″ deep and they were all stacked on top of each other, the stack would be nearly 331 miles high.