Dave wrote: > You guys aren't very old. I started with a Sinclair ZX80 with 1k RAM > and 4K rom.
Ahem. Standard response: if you haven't entered code into a PDP-11 with the panel switches in order to bootstrap the paper tape reader, or hand-punched chads out of Portran cards (keyboard, what's a keyboard?), you're not old. In fact, you're probably too young to remember what an amazing innovation the TRS-80 was, several years before the Sinclairs and BBCs appeared. A real personal computer that a student *could* afford, just, if they tried. At the time, the closest you could get in NZ for anything like the price was programmable calculators with RPN. And some other things have changed too. I remember queuing in an Internal Affairs office in Palmy to apply for *permission* to buy about $300 in overseas funds so I could import some RAM to upgrade my TRS-80. Ah yes, those were the good old days... cheers, peter =========================================== Peter Hyde, Development Director * http://TurboNote.com -- top-rated onscreen sticky notes * TCompress components for Delphi/.NET/Kylix/C++ @ http://webcentre.co.nz _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
