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Old 09-14-2010, 10:42 PM   #226
Steven Lyle Jordan
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And real-life people should avoid saying things like, "640 KB is more memory than anyone will ever need," ha ha.
I fell headlong into this hole with one of my novels. When I rewrote it for updating, I increased the memory mentions significantly. I need to update them again. I'm seriously thinking of writing something like:

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"How much memory does it hold?"

He told him. The amount of memory was at least thirty times the largest amount of memory he could imagine in such a device.
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