Flashback
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Troubleshooting the monitor problems I had today got me into a kind of “digital nostalgia” frame of mind. Specifically I’m thinking about the differences between today’s computers and the machine’s I started out on.
Just touching on one aspect there is still a massive difference. Take memory as an example. Unless I’ve fallen behind on tech, Modern state of the art machines are capable of as high as 4Gigabytes of ram… That’s Four Billion bytes of memory. The first computer I ever owned had 128 Kilobytes of RAM.
It’s an amazing difference because that old Tandy Color Computer 3 from 1985 (which I still have in working condition!). It was capable of quite a bit in that 128K, even though BASIC code could only directly use about 28K of it.
On the other hand, the first computer I ever Used was the in-store demonstration model of a TRS-80 Model 1. That baby came with a whopping Four Kilobytes of RAM. For the non-tech people, that’s 4096 characters of memory! … for the Whole Computer!
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