At work, I used an Intel 4004 which had damned if I remember memory. But the first computer I used was an IBM 650 which I started programming in decimal and then coded in assembler. It had 2000 ten digit words of drum memory.
It also had an optimizing assembler and a FORTRAN compiler (a variant called FORTRANSIT). Of course, it had as much backup storage as you wanted -- as long as you didn't mind dealing with large stacks of Hollerith cards. Ken On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Jon Elson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/08/2015 07:49 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > On 8 September 2015 at 13:43, Kenneth Lerman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> (Written by a man who owned a computer with 16K of memory -- although he > >> expanded it to 48K.) > > My first computer had 1k of memory. > > > > > I can top that. I built an 8008 CPU with only 256 bytes of > memory! It was not useful for very much, the only program I > wrote for it played music on an AM radio. This was in 1976. > > Jon > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > -- Kenneth Lerman 55 Main Street Newtown, CT 06470 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
