Subj : Fun facts
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Bj”rn Felten
Date : Sun Mar 16 2014 21:57:36

 JD>> My first computer BTW had 16 K

 MvdV> My first computer was an MK14. It had 256 bytes of memory.

   Lucky you. I was raised in a shoe-box in the middle of a highway... :)

   Yeah, I know... But, actually my first "computer" was a Motorola MEK 6800 D2 kit, a kit intended to help develop Motorola 6800 products. It had 128 byte RAM.

http://tinyurl.com/pn9po7b

   It had absolutely no storage facility, so you had to punch your code in from a Hex keyboard everytime you lost power.

   Ah, yes, those were the days. The new generations really have to learn from history -- as usual -- if they want to make any progress with our gene pool.

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