[sdiy] old memory chips - was Learning electronics now - was Real cause of DIY death

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> You know, in lectures and seminars I usually joke about the "stone age"
> when referring to late 70s to mid 80s, i.e. the time of DIY-kit and

Not stone age . . . it was the ROCK age. . . and where did it go?

> early home computers. The "kids" just can't imagine what it means to
> have a single kB at their hands which, even worse, has also to serve as
> video memory, when they have multi-megabytes just as *cache* memory.

and that 1K byte cost $10 at a time I could take my wife to McDonalds
for 5 meals for that $10. IIRC she let me buy 3Kb with money from a tax
return.

> Heck, we even got PhD students lately whose first machines were x86 PCs
> and who just don't know that there was a time when not everything was
> x86 and mainly Microsoft.

My son had problems convincing people, when he wrote 15 years of computer
experence on a job application, he was 19 or twent at the time. I put him in
front
of a computer before he was three. He was learning morse code at the same
time,
that didn't work so well since he couldn't write at the time.

. . . back to DIY - is there any good use for small static RAM chips? I was
thinking
of building a digital BBD --- A/D -> RAM  -> D/A  -> out and feedback

Tim D.

Not feeling old at all. I visited my doctor - he was surprised that I was
retired at 50.
Probably a good thing that I didn't tell him I retired three years ago.