First Megabit Chip in Commercial Product (opens in new tab)

April 18, 1986 Newspapers report that IBM’s Model 3090 mainframe has become the first commercial computer to use a megabit memory chip, 4 times the storage capacity of the then current generation of 256 kilobit chips. To give context to that amount of storage, it was reported that a megabit chip could store over 1… First Megabit Chip in Commercial Product is original content of This Day in Tech History.