On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 20:23:17 +0000, NY wrote:

> 256 Mb. So 64 MB? That's luxury!
>
Certainly was >!

I first learned to program in Algol 60 on an Elliott 503 with 8 Kwords
(39 bit words) with input on paper tape and output on a lineprinter.

Then learned assembler on an ICL 1901 with 4KWords of 24 bit memory, card
input, compiler loaded from magnetic tape and output on a lineprinter.

My first home machine was as a 48KB system with an MC6809 running FLEX-09
from two floppies. Input from keyboard, output to an Epson dot matrix
printer (remember them?).

At work I was programming an ICL 2966 mainframe running 12 online
database systems, for a few hundred uses, written in COBOL and on 16MB
RAM. with a roomful of 400MB, washing machine sized disk drives. (you can
go see one at TNMOC at Bletchley Park).

Mutter..mutter - tell that the the kidz of today and they won't believe
you...

Now a Lenovo T440 laptop with 8GB RAM and 500 GB disk, running Linux,
with Internet connections and a laser printer does everything I need and
is fast enough to avoid waiting except for system updates.


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