Reiko, to give you a better idea of the passing of time, on 1980, 28 years ago, my first computer was a Sinclair ZX-80, with only 1 KB of static RAM (yes, 1 KB!!!) and 4 KB of read-only memory, containing Sinclair simple BASIC programming language, editor, and OS.Reiko wrote:That's cool! I like reading the computer ads from years ago. "With the Atari 800 you can add up to 48k user installable RAM!"
Why am I laughing? I can see my kids 20 years from now laughing at how mom only had 1GB of ram on her computer.
What kind of things were you able to do with 4 KB?ANDREA wrote:Reiko, to give you a better idea of the passing of time, on 1980, 28 years ago, my first computer was a Sinclair ZX-80, with only 1 KB of static RAM (yes, 1 KB!!!) and 4 KB of read-only memory, containing Sinclair simple BASIC programming language, editor, and OS.Reiko wrote:That's cool! I like reading the computer ads from years ago. "With the Atari 800 you can add up to 48k user installable RAM!"
Why am I laughing? I can see my kids 20 years from now laughing at how mom only had 1GB of ram on her computer.
I think that 28 years in the future your nephews or my great-grandchildren simply won't believe that on 2008 we had PCs with ONLY 1 GB RAM.
Technology...cross and delight!
Bye
Andrea
Just very simple Basic programming, and some very simple (but for those times very amusing!) games.Reiko wrote:What kind of things were you able to do with 4 KB?
That is less than the size of one episode of star trek Xvid form!Hungry4info wrote:I remember getting my first 256 Mb hard drive.
... I thought I would never fill that thing up.
Hey wait a minute, why nephews? I'm not allowed to have children and be a mom?ANDREA wrote:28 years in the future your nephews
Naturally yes, Reiko, I was meaning that 28 years from now the children in your family will probably be your nephews, i.e. the children of your children, and in mine my great-grandchildren, i.e. children of my nephews.Reiko wrote:Hey wait a minute, why nephews? I'm not allowed to have children and be a mom?ANDREA wrote:28 years in the future your nephews
Doh! (in Homer Simpson's way!)selden wrote:Andrea, I think there may be some language confusion:
In English, nephews and nieces are the children of your brothers and sisters, they aren't your own descendants.
The children of your children are called grandchildren, and the next generation are your great-grandchildren.
The children of your nephews and nieces are your grandnephews and grandnieces. Their children are your great-grand nephews and great-grand-nieces.
Here's a chart that might help:
http://www.islandregister.com/cousin.html
