Re-reading "Neuromancer" and I'm struck how the protagonist wanting to get out of debt by selling 3MB of RAM went from being laughably dated to seeming actually plausible within recent months
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@BoredomFestival Longtime fan of CP.... starting to hate how real shit is getting (also, its always the terrible stuff and none of the cool stuff from the genre).
It’s profoundly unfair that in the 80s we didn’t get 1940s space opera coming true, but in the 2020s we get 1980s cyberpunk dystopia.
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I just looked up that passage.
It says 3 MB of "hot" RAM from "the Hitachi".Isn't "Hitachi" synonymous with a certain kind of toy for grown-ups these days?
Those surely have 3 MB of RAM nowadays. And it would be "hot" RAM for sure.
@alexanderondu
@BoredomFestival
Hitachi at some point in the '90s was making computers (MSX, laptop RISC, PCs) along with other Japanese tech company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX
https://www.computer-specifications.com/specifications/Hitachi-C90D-Specs.html
https://www.openpa.net/pa-risc_processor_other.html#pa50So maybe Gibson was using one of these as reference.
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Re-reading "Neuromancer" and I'm struck how the protagonist wanting to get out of debt by selling 3MB of RAM went from being laughably dated to seeming actually plausible within recent months
@BoredomFestival time certainly is a flat circle.
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"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
@simonzerafa @goatrodeo @BoredomFestival Not blue enough.
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