On Friday, 9 December 2022 08:27:18 GMT Wol wrote: > On 09/12/2022 00:45, Dale wrote: > > I even remember when 512KBs of ram was a big deal. I also remember > > having expansion cards that would add a few MBs of ram. Jeez I'm > > getting old. o_O We talk about TBs like they are nothing. My first > > puter was a old Vic-20. 4Kbs of ram it had. I played music on that > > thing and freaked my Dad out. ROFL > > I remember those things. About 16 MB per platter. I remember my work > buying a 300MB drive (19 platters in a disk pack, the size of a washing > machine) for our multi-user mini that served the entire company with > 256KB of ram ...
Latest in the willy-waving contest: in the 1970s the national grid was monitored and analysed with a Ferranti Argus 500 machine with 24KB RAM and a 2MB disk. It was common for American visitors to believe that was just driving the control engineers' displays, and where was the main computer? 24-bit assembler code. Those were the days - some of my very best. No concept of a file or a file-system. -- Regards, Peter.
