40 years ago today IBM was in the news for becoming the first computer company to make use of 1-megabit memory chips. Thus, the megabit memory era began with an American company and its Vermont fab leading the way, pushing back stubbornly against the seemingly unstoppable Japanese takeover of the memory market.
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IBM’s 3090 (Sierra series) mainframe computers were the first to adopt this new high-density memory. However, the New York Times…

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