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A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

Right now, more than 15 billion miles from Earth, a 48-year-old spacecraft is hurtling through interstellar space at 38,000 miles per hour.

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5KB of RAM

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.

]]>https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/22972955https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/22972955Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:11:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder on Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:00:19 GMT]]>20KB of ROM and 5KB of RAM, though that was expandable!

]]>https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/22972798https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/22972798Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:00:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder on Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:39:55 GMT]]>Commodore VIC-20 came out in 1980 with 20KB as well.

]]>https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/22972451https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/22972451Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:39:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder on Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:25:23 GMT]]>The Commodore 64 came out in 1982 and famously had 64KB of memory.

]]>https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/22958596https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/22958596Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:25:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder on Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:40:29 GMT]]>In 1977 69 KB was huge memory. First home PC's from 1980 and 1981 like ZX81 they have 1 KB of memory. One.

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