I am getting old...

I remember my firt computer, a VIC20. It had 5 kB of RAM and ASCII-Graphics.

When you wanted to draw something fancy, let's say plot the sin-function, 
you had to fill the screen  with characters from 0-255, map the characters 
from ROM to RAM and then redefine the the respective 8x16 bit-blocks for 
each character to achieve the respective dots.

The VIC cost me a small fortune...

And now, for the same price: Quadcore with 8 MB cache (1600x more), 4 GB RAM 
(almost 1 million times more), 512 kB Graphics card (100.000x more RAM).

We used to store our data on a cassete-tape (for thoses who do not know: in 
pre-CD times audio was stored on tape - one side 30 min.).

But hey, we were proud to have this. After all, the US lunar lander had a 
highly developed computer on board that had only 1 kB of memory ;-) - this 
was a lot better.

"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:48981542$1@news.povray.org...
> When I left my dad's house on Sunday, we had has old Amiga 1200 up and 
> running, and he was using it to run a ZX Spectrum emulator.
>
> So... he's using an obsolete computer... to emulate a prehistoric 
> computer... ELITE! o_O
>
> -- 
> http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
> http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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