TC wrote:
> I am getting old...
> 
> I remember my firt computer, a VIC20. It had 5 kB of RAM and 
> ASCII-Graphics.
> 
> The VIC cost me a small fortune...

Heh. Now the VIC is a computer I've only heard about in legend. I own 
two Usborne science books that contain BASIC program listings, together 
with marks indicating lines that need altering for VIC, PET, Spectrum, 
Acorn and BBC Micro (and possibly C64, I don't remember off-hand).

(But then, strictly speaking, an Apple is a computer I've only heard 
about in legend, and they still *make* those! In fact, I recently 
discovered that something almost unbelievable has happened: there is now 
an Apple shop in my home town! So maybe I'll go take a look sometime...)

Still, I can remember being a small child, and reading about binary 
adders, and deciding that one day I'd sit down and *build* a computer 
out of 7400s! ;-)

Oddly enough, that never actually occurred...

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