[rollei_list] Re: OT: Terrabyte hard drive.
- From: "John Wild" <JWild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:42:57 +0100
My first foray into the computer world was a Sinclair ZX80 with 1k of memory of
which I think, 512 bytes were ROM and 512 were RAM. I think it cost about £400!
The next edition which was the ZX81 had 4k memory. To make it go faster, I did
a bit of machine code programming.
John
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[mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Daniel Ridings
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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT: Terrabyte hard drive.
That was about the time I bought a Commodore PC (IBM compatible) with a
whopping 10mb harddisk :-)
Daniel
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:39 AM, FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> In 1987 I bought 2 Mb of ram for 2000 UKpounds. I reflected the other
> day that at 1987 prices my 32Gb iPod Touch is worth 32 million pounds
> in memory alone :-) Frank
>
>
> --- On Fri, 17/10/08, Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
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