ram lapping, n. – The point at which your computer gets an amount of RAM equal to the size of the hard drive on the first computer you owned.
Have you RAM lapped yet?
by Rob Cottingham | Mar 4, 2005 | Lexicon for the New Millennium | 1 comment
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I guess that this term applies to those whose first computers actually had such luxuries as hard drives. My first computer was a Timex/Sinclair 1000 with a whopping 2048 bytes of RAM, expandable to 16 KB. Storage was on cassette tapes. First hard drive equipped machine my family had had 80 megs, which was absolutely whopping back then. Now I gripe about ahving less that a gig of RAM.
Some Terminal City hacks were talking about old computers this evening — a few eyes popped when I mentioned that a certain Province reporter used a TRS-80 laptop to file his reports from the 1994 Commonwealths in Victoria. The thing was way past antiquated then; now, it’d be considered a funky piece of olde computing gear. He used a genuine acoustic coupler modem to send his reports back to Vancouver. I kind you not — he’d acquired a PowerBook earlier that year, but he wanted his old reliable machine for a 17-day out-of-town assignment.