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Dedicated to my first computer, Sinclair ZX Spectrum. While many guys had game consoles like Dendy (NES clone) or Sega (Sega Genesis), I had this one, assembled by my father, so I could not only play, but also learn coding and write small programs. It had 48 kilobytes of memory (RAM)... not megabytes, which my 2nd PC counted its volume in, not gigabytes (there is a chance some of you already have 48 Gb RAM!), just 48 * 1024 bytes, shared with video... Technologies change, don't they?
A fox kit has written a program that draws an image of a paw print (it's also imposed over the programs listing). Actually, the program was composed recently on an emulator, though the idea I had somewhere that time.
Also, can you guess what might be on those tape cassettes?
A fox kit has written a program that draws an image of a paw print (it's also imposed over the programs listing). Actually, the program was composed recently on an emulator, though the idea I had somewhere that time.
Also, can you guess what might be on those tape cassettes?
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I heard a story the other day about some early computer geeks who had a radio show, and broadcast programs from cassettes over the air which people recorded and successfully used.
The first computer I ever worked on was in about 1970. It consisted of a whole room of huge IBM machines with 1" recording tape on reel-to-reel decks, and the keyboard was a huge IBM Selectric typewriter. These were also the type of machines that used punch cards. My dad was a banker, and I seeing the same type of machines and the card reader/writers a couple of years earlier, at his office. Those card readers alone were the size of a small car.
It's amazing to think that the computing power in one of those rooms full of equipment is far less than what's in a smart watch or some toys today.