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Is 16K of memory enough?
penrhyn
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The worst bit was waiting half an hour for the game to load from a cassette tape and then getting a 'load error'.0
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half an hour for a cassette to load???
What about a whole day typing in basic code only to find you spelt a bit wrong and you get a compile error, then trying to find your error in reams of code.
But then you get it working and hurrah, you have programmed you computer to flash different colours or play a few notes.0 -
Cassettes? Luxury. We used to dream of cassettes....
I started programming at grammar school in 1974. We used to write our programs on punched cards (I can still remember the codes) or paper tape then stick them in the post to Preston Polytechnic and then we would get our results back about a week later. In my 2nd year we got an modem (110baud - that's 18,000 times slower than the link I'm using to browse this forum) and life was never the same after that.
In the early 80s I remember getting my first 7Mb hard disk drive (my current PC has 720GB) to connect to my 1.5Mhz Motoroloa 6809 computer (current PC around 3000Mhz). The whole setup cost several times what a PC would cost today.
Even as recent as the mid 90s I remember colleagues being jealous when I got a Sun workstation with 1GB disk. "How on earth are you going to use all that disk space?" was a common question.
And people say their computer is slow. Kids today don't know they are born.....0 -
ShaunJUK wrote:half an hour for a cassette to load???
What about a whole day typing in basic code only to find you spelt a bit wrong and you get a compile error, then trying to find your error in reams of code.
But then you get it working and hurrah, you have programmed you computer to flash different colours or play a few notes.
Or worse still the wrods "Save your program before tryin it" were meaningless as you tyoed RUN and your whole machine went into a continuous loop taht could only be stopped by restarting it0 -
What about having to remember all the keys you would have to press to draw a straight line?
The joys of the computer mouse. :rolleyes:0
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