The Hardcore Hardware of Yore

This is a RAM board for the VAX 8600 mini-computer from circa 1986, measuring 55 x 38cm. It packs a whopping 4MB of RAM. By the way, it would have been sufficient to play the original Doom, the single most demanding game when it came out in 1993, 7 years later!

If you think that this is nothing special, ponder on this for a moment - Dark Messiah demands 2GB of RAM to run flawlessly in 2006. How much RAM would a very new and demanding PC game need in 2013?

The correct answer? Oodles.

(If my extrapolations are not completely off the mark, "oodles" is about 32GB)