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Pretty incredible people were able to use this device for anything at all; the base version with 1kb of memory barely had enough memory to contain the screen
by tinus_hn 6y ago
Pretty incredible people were able to use this device for anything at all; the base version with 1kb of memory barely had enough memory to contain the screen
- forinti 6y agoIt's not much but you could at least play around coding maths routines. I know that's what I would do. That would have some value for a student.
- elvis70 6y agoThere is a chess game for this machine, with AI, and no RAM pack required! (David Horne's 1K Chess from 1982): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9151552 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9151552
- colejohnson66 6y agoWell, the Atari 2600 had a whopping one hundred and twenty eight bytes of RAM. 128 bytes. Literally just 7 address lines worth of data. (The cartridge has 12 address lines)
- tinus_hn 6y agoTrue, but that kind of computer runs code from ROM. The ZX81 ran Basic programs from that 1k of RAM.
- colejohnson66 6y agoAh! I forgot about that.