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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
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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] dev null> 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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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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TC wrote:
> 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).
Hmm, let me see now...
this cheap now!)
* Lamest graphics card I could find: nVidia GeForce 6200 TC with 64 MB
maximum resolution of 2048 x 1536 at 85 Hz. I kid you not!
VAT. Even this has 24-bit, 48 kHz digital audio. And 6 independant
channels of it, no less. For less than the cost of that drink at the pub
the other day!
Yeah, digital is cheap now... ;-)
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Invisible wrote:
>
> Yeah, digital is cheap now... ;-)
>
It's called the economy of scale :-)
John
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Doctor John wrote:
> It's called the economy of scale :-)
Is that where they use different scales of object to represent monetary
quantities?
Is *that* how we ended up with the Pu??
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Doctor John wrote:
>
>> It's called the economy of scale :-)
>
> Is that where they use different scales of object to represent monetary
> quantities?
>
<thinks> Is this an invisible joke </thinks>
> Is *that* how we ended up with the Pu??
>
Ummmm. Whatever :-)
John
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>>> It's called the economy of scale :-)
>>
>> Is that where they use different scales of object to represent
>> monetary quantities?
>>
>
> <thinks> Is this an invisible joke </thinks>
>
>> Is *that* how we ended up with the Pu??
>>
>
> Ummmm. Whatever :-)
I'm just laughing at the "</thinks>" tag. Like anybody should ever end
thinking! ;-)
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
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> I'm just laughing at the "</thinks>" tag. Like anybody should ever end
> thinking! ;-)
>
imo most of us spend too much time thinking about stuff like "How do I
get a date with cute person?" or "Should I apply for a new job?"
Don't think, do! ;-)
John
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