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Old 09-15-2010, 01:21 PM   #235
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan View Post
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:

"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.
That's actually not a bad idea. It not only future-proofs your story, it also is a life-line for those readers who have no idea what constitutes a lot of memory and what is a small amount of memory.
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