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Subject: Re: Tell me: what was System 1.0 like?
Message-ID: <1991May14.232939.17853@hawk.cs.ukans.edu>
From: chai@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Ian Chai)
Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 23:29:39 GMT
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In article <6036@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jlhaferman@l_eld09.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman) writes:
>Well, did any of you experience Radio Shacks TRS-80s?  I had a 4K RAM
>machine, and used to play chess on it!  How do you write a Chess program
>with 4K of available memory?  Of course, it was pretty easy to beat,
>but amazing nonetheless.

Haha! Yeah, I remember entering Junior High and being wowed by those
16 K Trs-80's... yep, *my* school had the high-end models 8-)

A year later, my dad bought me a 48K Model III and my friends asked me,
"What in the world are you going to do with *all*that*memory*???" (I
needed it so I could run TRS-DOS and not just casette...)

(Hmm, nowadays, I use 150 Meg TEAC tapes to back up my stuff... tapes
which bear an uncanny resemblance to those cassettes I used to use with
the TRS-80...)

Now we're all whining about how our IIx, SE/30, etc are limited by the
16 Meg Limit...

-- 
Ian Chai      Internet: chai@cs.ukans.edu      Bitnet: 2fntnougat@ukanvax
I don't believe in flaming. If I appear to be flaming, either (a) it's an
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suffered a momentary glitch, so just ignore me until it's fixed.