alt Hacker News> The first computer I ever used had 512K
Mine had 4K of RAM and an 800 KHz CPU - and I was living in the future, man. No way I could use that much memory. After all I had to type in whatever program I wanted to run every time I turned it on. Then I got a manual audio cassette recorder and thought "Woah, I don't think it gets better than this!"
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isr • today at 5:12 AM
My first (vic20) had 3.5KB of ram. When I added a whopping 8KB memory expansion cartridge, I genuinely wondered if I could possibly get any of my BASIC programs to use it all.
And when I upgraded from tapes to the 1541 floppy drive (5.25" floppies), it was like "thats it - I have INFINITE possibilities now"
Simpler times :)
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> Then I got a manual audio cassette recorder and thought "Woah, I don't think it gets better than this!"
That's not how I remember it. By the time we got data cassettes, we knew very well that floppies were the future.