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No 512 option? (Score:5, Insightful)
I find it odd that powers of 10 were chosen instead of powers of 2. Nearly all memory multiples would be powers of 2, and certainly very few would be powers of 10.
So, basically, "How old are you?" (Score:5, Insightful)
Something like: 7*log10(Ratio)+10 = your age +/-5 years?
Re:No 512 option? (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't think you understand your own joke...
If you had a hard drive, you aren't old (Score:5, Insightful)
If your memory was measured in MB, you aren't old.
Re:Missing alternative (Score:5, Insightful)
oddly enough, I have more of a need for RAM in my phone than my desktop.
But if you want a good laugh, flex your google-fu and compare your phone's memory and processing capacity to that of NASA's Mission Control center when we launched Apollo 11. -- Not the lunar lander (that is outclassed by modern parking meters), I mean the Mission Control mainframe back on earth.
That really drives home how crazy the whole "moon by the end of the 60's" thing was; and how amazing the success truly was.
Re: Missing alternative (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Missing alternative (Score:2, Insightful)
No you don't. You simply need software which doesn't allocate 800 MB and use only 2MB.
More than 30,000,000 times (Score:4, Insightful)
It should be clear you've got the choices wrong when the mode is at one end. My first computer had 384 bytes of RAM. This one has 12GB.
Re:Missing alternative (Score:5, Insightful)
So where's the 6,250 choice (640K -> 4G)? The 12,500 choice? The 25,000 choice (640K -> 16G)? But, I see we have a few dinosaurs out there on the list who actually had Z80s! Thanks for making me feel young again!
But maybe the questions should have used ranges or a greater than/ less than qualifier?
Come on, this is supposed to be a Geek site! Be precise and pedantic for God's sake. Or at least for Quantum's sake.
Re:Missing alternative (Score:5, Insightful)
The other difference between the 4k TRS-80 and the 16k one (apart from the RAM, and the price) was that the bigger one came with a better BASIC:
TRS-80 Model 1 level 1 (4k)
10 P. "HELLO WORLD"
20 G. 10
TRS-80 Model 1 Level 2 (16k)
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 GOTO 10
Not having to de-code the ultra-short keywords made for much more readable progams.