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You'll find plenty of people on HN who grew up with Commodore 64s, thus named for having 64 kilobytes of memory, the approximate size of a website favicon in 20
by decimalenough 3mo ago
You'll find plenty of people on HN who grew up with Commodore 64s, thus named for having 64 kilobytes of memory, the approximate size of a website favicon in 2026.
But of course real hackers chiseled their own 0s and 1s out of rock by hand.
- Intermernet 3mo agoRock? You were lucky! We used to have to hand pick our zeros and ones from sparse clouds of hydrogen and helium!
- chasd00 3mo agoSometimes we didn’t even have ones, I wrote a whole database once using only zeros. - dilbert
- linksnapzz 3mo ago“You had zeros? We had to use the letter “O”…” -Wally
- jsymolon 3mo agogod forbid if you got a parahydrogen vs a orthohydrogen hydrogen. That reverse spin really messed up the 1's.
- SoftTalker 3mo agoI had a TI-99/4a. 16KB of memory. Expandable with the purchase of an expensive "Peripheral Expansion System" and 32KB card. Or 4KB "mini-memory" cartridge.