when 1.2Gb was big
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that was the size of the hard drive my first PC had. It eventually got to be too small so I had to keep backing stuff up onto CDs, which I went through at the weekend and sorted out. Its amazing how much crap I collected. Old Windows 95 apps, sound clips from films and TV shows, cheesy clipart... Why did I ever think this stuff would come in useful. If I had a better memory I would remember more.
My first computer was a Toshiba MSX. I seem to remember the only place I could get games for it was a market in Blackpool (UK seaside town, popular holiday destination). When that died I got a C64 (after the home shopping catalogue sent that instead of a Spectrum by mistake). And then... my first PC. :) If I had a better memory I would remember more.
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:laugh: Mine had 1 kB of RAM, too, but it stored long term data on paper tape. Of course, to do that much I had to design and build the interface card to talk to the tape punch...:-O I eventually upgraded it to have 16 kB of RAM, though - plenty for any practical use.;) Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
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My first computer was a Toshiba MSX. I seem to remember the only place I could get games for it was a market in Blackpool (UK seaside town, popular holiday destination). When that died I got a C64 (after the home shopping catalogue sent that instead of a Spectrum by mistake). And then... my first PC. :) If I had a better memory I would remember more.
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And didn't you just love the psychedelic coloured bars that were shown on screen whilst loading. If I had a better memory I would remember more.
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Hey, hey 16K[^] Though booting up a spectrum emulator now makes me think that I may have squandered my childhood. Thank god I had some other geeky hobbies. Ryan
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Hell yeah... only way I can get a decent conversation. :laugh: If I had a better memory I would remember more.
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Mine had 1Kb of memory and could be plugged into a cassette tape drive :) Am I showing my age? ;)
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Meg's World - Blog PhotographyMine had 0.5 k RAM. And I had to build the kit myself. ZX80 ... now, those were the days!
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really ?? my one was equiped with a 5'1/4 floppy disk.... :) that's quite nice nowadays...
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Yea I used to have a dual 5 1/4" system. OS and compiler on one, source on the other! Those were the days ;) Ant.
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And didn't you just love the psychedelic coloured bars that were shown on screen whilst loading. If I had a better memory I would remember more.
You had colour?!? :omg: :wtf: Wow! (Insert Monty Python sketch "The Four Yorkshiremen" here...) :-O S
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:laugh: Mine had 1 kB of RAM, too, but it stored long term data on paper tape. Of course, to do that much I had to design and build the interface card to talk to the tape punch...:-O I eventually upgraded it to have 16 kB of RAM, though - plenty for any practical use.;) Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
Roger Wright wrote: Mine had 1 kB of RAM, too, but it stored long term data on paper tape. Yep, but I did have the 4k expansion box. It was great to heat lunch on. about half the size of an office desk. I do not mind getting old. It beats all the other options that can think of.
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Roger Wright wrote: Mine had 1 kB of RAM, too, but it stored long term data on paper tape. They had RAM back then? I thought you guys were still figuring out vacuum tubes and stuff... ;P ~Nitron.
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startNitron wrote: I thought you guys were still figuring out vacuum tubes and stuff... What do you think the first RAM was made from? :cool: I do not mind getting old. It beats all the other options that can think of.
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im quite positive the c-16 wasnt 1mhz , since the c64 was 0.98 mhz ;) and the c16 must have been introduced a bit earlier (or?) //Roger
Roger J wrote: ...since the c64 was 0.98 mhz Close, but the crystal oscillators used by both the C64 and the Apple II ran at 14.31818 MHz. Dividing that number by 14 resulted in a 1.02 MHz clock. An earlier PC, the Radio Shack Color Computer used a divisor of 16, resulting in a 888 kHz clock.
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Suzanne Boyle wrote: that was the size of the hard drive my first PC had. Lucky, my first computer came with a cassette tape recorder to store programs on ;) Love live the Commodore VIC-20, 3.5K RAM, who would need more? :) Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com
Do you remember a cassette-based game called Bruce Lee? That was a fun one!
"The pointy end goes in the other man." - Antonio Banderas (Zorro, 1998)
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Suzanne Boyle wrote: that was the size of the hard drive my first PC had. Lucky, my first computer came with a cassette tape recorder to store programs on ;) Love live the Commodore VIC-20, 3.5K RAM, who would need more? :) Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com
What was fun about the Commodore was that the disk drive had its own processor ( 6502-B) and you could write codethat ran ON the disk drive. Richard "The man that hath not music in himself and is not moved with concord of sweet sounds is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; Let no man trust him." Shakespeare
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What was fun about the Commodore was that the disk drive had its own processor ( 6502-B) and you could write codethat ran ON the disk drive. Richard "The man that hath not music in himself and is not moved with concord of sweet sounds is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; Let no man trust him." Shakespeare
Richard Stringer wrote: What was fun about the Commodore was that the disk drive had its own processor ( 6502-B) and you could write codethat ran ON the disk drive. Yeah, I would like to get back to the old technology. Add a drive to the Commodore was simply plugging another on in the chain. Adding a printer was the same. They were smart devices and did not require IRQs, plug in cards or drivers. Shame it wasn't that easy now ;) I remember building a copy protection routine for my only commercial software I sold on the C64. You execute code in the drive and have complete control over the reading and writing of the disk. It was great to half track (writing between the tracks and vary them, so that when someone copied the disk it would be corrupt and not copy that section properly. Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com
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Absolutely. My first was a Commodore C= 16. Was that 1Mhz? Sam W
Yeah there were all around 1 mhz based on the 6502. If I remember corrently the C128 could run at 2 mhz. I still remember my first floppy drive on my first Elephant floppy disk at $3.95 for that one 5 1/4 170K single side single density disk. Cut that in half when I found I could notch the other side and flip the disk over to use the back side ;) Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com
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Richard Stringer wrote: What was fun about the Commodore was that the disk drive had its own processor ( 6502-B) and you could write codethat ran ON the disk drive. Yeah, I would like to get back to the old technology. Add a drive to the Commodore was simply plugging another on in the chain. Adding a printer was the same. They were smart devices and did not require IRQs, plug in cards or drivers. Shame it wasn't that easy now ;) I remember building a copy protection routine for my only commercial software I sold on the C64. You execute code in the drive and have complete control over the reading and writing of the disk. It was great to half track (writing between the tracks and vary them, so that when someone copied the disk it would be corrupt and not copy that section properly. Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com
I wrote an article in Transactor on how to do stuff like that. Also had a little program that encrypted files written to thw disk so that they could only be read on that disk. Richard "The man that hath not music in himself and is not moved with concord of sweet sounds is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; Let no man trust him." Shakespeare