straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka) (05/19/87)
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."
waltervj@dartvax.UUCP (05/27/87)
--- core?.. core??... CORE!!! ah, the memories... my first personal computer, so young and sweet, Kim-1 she was called, i think... my but it's been a long time... Kim was thin, weighing in at 256 bytes (yes, that's bytes, not kilo-, or mega-bytes) of RAM. but I loved to stroker her firm little hex keypad and watch her eight LED digits flash. We made some beautiful machine code together... of course, she didn't have core. she wasn't a brute after all! But, I have a pane of core from some extinct mainframe in a draw at home... Thanx for the memories! -walter.