I think the Timex-Sinclair kit I built in 1976(?) had 8 bit bytes
(anyone remember?) but there was something goofy about how you had to
enter code - like 4k in bank one and 4k in bank two or something like
that.
My original Apple II (1977) had 8 bit bytes, along with a tape drive
and 16k of Ram (Yipee!) - however, back in those days you couldn't do
lower case, SO EVERYTHING YOU WROTE LOOKED LIKE YOU WERE YELLING
(according 'this' generation)
Back in my day :-)
Jay Wooten, President
Go Data Systems, Inc.
www.godatasystems.com
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On Sep 14, 2006, at 10:55 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:
On Sep 14, 2006, at 8:53 PM, Robert Woodhead wrote:
Nah - give me a Sinclair ZX spectrum any day :)
You young whippersnappers have it easy. Why, when I was a lad,
the bytes only had 6 bits. And we couldn't afford twos-complement
arithmetic.
Robert "CDC Cyber 6600, for example" Woodhead
LOL ... we had 9 bit bytes on the Multics system I learned PL/1 on
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