In article <mailman.201.1267632673.23598.python-l...@python.org>, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <da...@druid.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:42:00 +0000 > MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > > Gregory Ewing wrote: > > Mk14 from Science of Cambridge, a kit with hex keypad and 7-segment > > display, which I had to solder together, and also make my own power > > supply. I had the extra RAM and the I/O chip, so that's 256B (including > > the memory used by the monitor) + 256B additional RAM + 128B more in the > > I/O chip. > > In case some of you youngsters think that there is a typo in the above, > no, he means a total of 640 bytes. In today's terms that would be > approx 0.0000006GB. 640 bytes! Man, did you have it easy. When I was a kid, we had to walk 10 miles uphill to school in the snow, oh, wait, wrong story. When I was a kid, we had a D2 kit (http://tinyurl.com/yfgyq4u). We had 256 bytes of RAM. And we thought we were lucky! Some of the other kids, if they wanted to store a number, they had to scratch the bits into stone tablets with their bare hands... When's the last time you had a computer where the instruction manual warned you against wearing silk or nylon clothing? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
