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From: straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Computersaurus (was: memory desires)
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Date: Tue, 19-May-87 15:21:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 19 15:21:52 1987
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In article <2708@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> woody@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (William Edward Woody) writes:
>So?  Remember y'all when 4K was a lot of memory, and you simply hadn't
>the foggiest idea what to do with all that memory when you finally 
>shelled out the money for 16K?  And now here we are, complaining because
>our personal computer has less than 4,096K memory in it...

I remember in the "dark ages" of 1977, that I saw a high-schooler
running a chess program in a small competition at the first West Coast
Computer Faire.  He was running an 8080 with:
1) ONE 2708 (1KByte) EPROM for program storage

2) about 1KByte of RAM (8-2102s, I think)
3) No peripherals except for LED output and a "hex pad" for input
4) All on a little ~5x8 proto-board
And yes, it REALLY was playing chess.  I wonder what he's doing today.

Oh, by the way, does anybody remember core, (and I mean REAL core)?
Sorry for cluttering up this newsgroup, but I couldn't resist!
-- 
Rich Straka     ihnp4!ihlpf!straka

Advice for the day: "MSDOS - just say no."