On Sep 8 2015 10:26 AM, Jon Elson 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.
This reminds me of some friends playing the game "Ah that's nothing, when I was young all we had to compute with was an abacus.. Well at least you had abacuses. All we had was fingers and toes... Well you were lucky. We lost our fingers and toes trying to calculate the 40,000'th digit of pi... Well at least you HAD pi. We were given a constant from some politician who did not like the fact that his son could not wrap his head around an irrational number... You got us there. Swapping irrational politicians for irrational numbers. NOT a good trade..." Well now. If I was going to try to top that (for realizes) at least you started with an 8080. I once built a CPU from wire-wrapped discrete logic. 7 functions and 8 bits wide... EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
