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Old 01-24-2016, 11:28 AM
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“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” Thomas Jefferson
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Old 01-24-2016, 11:51 AM
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Old 01-24-2016, 12:01 PM
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I learned on a Commador 64 that you hooked up to a tv.
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I think I have those big floppy discs someplace he can have
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Old 01-24-2016, 04:18 PM
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Perspective here, the average PC Hard Drive these days is 1 Terabyte. That is 16,000 times more storage than those days.
Average RAM these days 8 Gigabytes.
8 gigabytes RAM is 8,388,608 times More ram than The Optional 256 k those days.
Processor speed? Dare say Billions of times Faster and Many more Cores than those days, ALL That for a Small Fraction of the cost back then. Considering Inflation, it is Mind Boggling! One can now buy a NICE PC With all peripherals included for about $600.00 Today's price! That would likely translate to about $100.00 max back then!
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“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” Thomas Jefferson
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Yep. I learned to program on an IBM 1620 Mark 2, with 4K of memory!! Now if my computer has less than 4G, I'm not satisfied.
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"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one." - Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria
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I learned on a Commador 64 that you hooked up to a tv.
OMG same here. I coded in basic a lot when I was a kid. Some memories...
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Besides reviving memories of Mike's serial banning string, it's an interesting reminder.

At one time IMSAI was a world leader in floppy disks, etc. So was Elephant.

Were are they now?
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"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one." - Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria
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