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.
whats more – at $15 a chip, it would cost over 2 billion dollars, just for the chips
Hilarious.
Hard to believe… come a long way.
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.