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I loved how the old systems would prompt for memory size on boot. Ok, maybe not loved, but at least had my nostalgia spurred. My personal favorite of that era

I loved how the old systems would prompt for memory size on boot. Ok, maybe not loved, but at least had my nostalgia spurred. My personal favorite of that era is the TRS-80 model 100, of which I own several. I give them to my kids when they turn 10. Best notebook keyboard of that era (and periodically, since then).

kator 14y ago
Do you remember why they asked for memory size? It was the ROM asking you how much memory you wanted to allocate for BASIC variables. You could tune this for various programs and/or if you were planning on running machine language programs you wanted to have BASIC get out of the way and leave your program more memory.. :)