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16KB ? You were lucky! (channeling my best Monty Python impression) My first computer was a NASCOM-1 with 1KB available to the user, and didn't even have an as
by HarHarVeryFunny 4y ago
16KB ? You were lucky! (channeling my best Monty Python impression)
My first computer was a NASCOM-1 with 1KB available to the user, and didn't even have an assembler. You programmed it by entering hex op codes directly into memory! And we liked it that way!
Still, at least the NASCOM-1 had a keyboard, not like MIT's Altair 8800 of a few years prior where you only had binary toggle switches to setup the address and data bus to program each byte!