OT - Memory usage in days of yore

[Roald Ribe]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> Janice Caron wrote:
>> On 10/04/2008, Janice Caron <caron800 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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! :-)
> 
> 16k ROM, and either 16k or 48k RAM, according to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_ZX_spectrum

ZX Spectrum was preceded by two other models, the ZX80 & ZX81
(the last one also known as the Timex 1000 if memory serves).

Roald