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Article #16277Computersaurus (was: memory desires)
From: Straka
Date: Tue, 19 May 1987 19:21
Date: Tue, 19 May 1987 19:21
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In article <2708@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> woody@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (William Edward Woody) writes: >So? Remember y'all when 4K was a lot of memory, and you simply hadn't >the foggiest idea what to do with all that memory when you finally >shelled out the money for 16K? And now here we are, complaining because >our personal computer has less than 4,096K memory in it... I remember in the "dark ages" of 1977, that I saw a high-schooler running a chess program in a small competition at the first West Coast Computer Faire. He was running an 8080 with: 1) ONE 2708 (1KByte) EPROM for program storage 2) about 1KByte of RAM (8-2102s, I think) 3) No peripherals except for LED output and a "hex pad" for input 4) All on a little ~5x8 proto-board And yes, it REALLY was playing chess. I wonder what he's doing today. Oh, by the way, does anybody remember core, (and I mean REAL core)? Sorry for cluttering up this newsgroup, but I couldn't resist! -- Rich Straka ihnp4!ihlpf!straka Advice for the day: "MSDOS - just say no."
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mimsy!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!ihlpf!straka From: straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Computersaurus (was: memory desires) Message-ID: <1598@ihlpf.ATT.COM> Date: Tue, 19-May-87 15:21:52 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpf.1598 Posted: Tue May 19 15:21:52 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 03:35:40 EDT References: <5207@ut-ngp.UUCP> <2708@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Reply-To: straka@ihlpf.UUCP (55223-Straka,R.J.) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 22