OT - Memory usage in days of yore

[Bill Baxter]

Saaa wrote:
> Where the hell do you people live?
> My old computer had 1gigabyte of ram.

I think it's more a question of "when the hell" these people lived.  :-)

My first computer was an Apple ][+ with a massive 48K!


>>>  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! :-) 


--bb