OT - Memory usage in days of yore

[Janice Caron]

On 10/04/2008, Janice Caron <caron800 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 10/04/2008, Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  >  I used to work with a device that had
>  >  256 bytes of RAM and 8K of code space.  When working on that device, I
>  >  learned how important it was to split common functionality into functions.
>
>  Pah! My ZX80 had *one K* of RAM. And three quarters of that was used
>  for the display!
>  (and you could still play Space Invaders on it).
>
>  Young people today! :-)

That said, you still win. Ignoring the display, we both were left with
256 bytes of RAM, but the ZX80 had 16K of ROM, whereas your machine
only had eight.

What was this machine of which you speak?