In the good old days, we'd count "1, 2, many ..." -------------------- Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Richard Sims <r...@bu.edu> wrote: > On May 28, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Thorneycroft, Doug wrote: > > > OK, I think I have you all beat on the early high tech front. > > Commodore VIC-20 with a whopping 5K memory, and a cassette player > > for storage. > > If you're going to be like that... > I had a MITS Altair 8800 with 256 bytes of memory, where you would step > through memory to then toggle bits on and off via sense switches beneath > LEDs. > I think we should stop there, rather than go back further, to desk > calculators and comptometers. :-) > > Richard Sims >