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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Luxury - was - Re: Please do NOT .....

2006-06-07 by Mycroft2152

Sure, and you had to dig graphite out of the ground to
write on the papyrus.

Myc

--- Andrew <andrewm1973@...> wrote:

> > MYC wrote:
> >
> > Of course, I'll show my age, by comparing it to
> the
> > original IBM PC, TRS-80, Apple and Commodore PET.
> it
> > was amazing what could be done with 64K and a 1
> MHz
> > processor!
>
> (in a yorkshire accent)
>
> 64K - SHEER luxury.
>
> When I was a lad we had to write our own word
> processors with only 64 BYTES and we had to use zero
> bit CPUs that ran at one hertz.
>
>
>
>
>
>


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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Luxury - was - Re: Please do NOT .....

2006-06-07 by Herbert E. Plett

gosh...

oh, but then the 8008 with 8k, running at 80KHz, a TV and 90k floppy back then
was top notch...

--- Andrew <andrewm1973@...> wrote:

>
> 64K - SHEER luxury.
>
> When I was a lad we had to write our own word
> processors with only 64 BYTES and we had to use zero
> bit CPUs that ran at one hertz.


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