You, sir, definately worked on some ancient hardware. My calculator
has more flash/ram than that machine did, and actually allows
higher-level languages ;-) (imagine what they could have done with a
modern Ti-8x calculator ;-)

side note: most motorola phones now support java, which means that
they *must* have more cpu/ram/flash than that particular computer did
;-)

btw, weren't those machines the size of a large room?

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 07:45:15 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
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> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 
> >
> > <old-timer-speak>
> > You young sprouts have it easy. When *I* got into computing,
> > bootstrapping consisted of a half-hour of keying in a binary paper
> > tape loader into low memory of a machine with a 60 kbyte hard drive
> > and about 5 kbytes of RAM. And when you were done, the OS consisted of
> > an assembler that used hexadecimal op codes and a subroutine library.
> > </old-timer-speak>
> 
> Hey, if it was good enough for John Von Neumann and his friends to
> design hydrogen bombs, it was good enough for me. :)
> 
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