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To: OldMissileer

Right and you used bank switching to fool the CPU so you use more then
48k that’s K folks not Meg not Gig, K.


56 posted on 08/01/2017 2:18:45 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: gibsonguy
Right and you used bank switching to fool the CPU so you use more then 48k that’s K folks not Meg not Gig, K.

My first storage was a certified cassette tape drive I bought at Radio Shack and also the old phone cradle modem.

70 posted on 08/01/2017 5:30:59 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: gibsonguy

I am such a dinosaur that my FORTRAN and COBOL classes in college were with punch cards. After my class finished the computer science department installed the dumb terminals.


72 posted on 08/01/2017 5:37:32 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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