I remember working on a machine with 4 k memory; but this was a main-frame
(IBM 1620) using vacum tubes; input and output by punched cards, and
running Fortran II;
Must have been in '68 or '69.
This was the "obsolete" machine us students were allowed to play with; for
serious computing, there was another mainframe, with a hard disk of, IIRC,
4 Mb capacity; memory was 96 kb, raised to 128 kb around 1970.
And we were told we were priviledged, because our university had one of the
most powerful computers in the education system at the time !
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, getting old on the banks of the Paraguay River.
> Anybody else on this list old enough to remember when the "suits"
> didn't run things, and games/software were ported to every single
> platform, just because they could/it was neat? Circa '80's with
> names like Tandy, Atari, Amiga, etc, etc,... ;-)
>
> --
> /\
> Dark><Lord
> \/
--
Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
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