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Dedicated to my first computer, Sinclair ZX Spectrum. While many guys had game consoles like Dendy (NES clone) or Sega (Sega Genesis), I had this one, assembled by my father, so I could not only play, but also learn coding and write small programs. It had 48 kilobytes of memory (RAM)... not megabytes, which my 2nd PC counted its volume in, not gigabytes (there is a chance some of you already have 48 Gb RAM!), just 48 * 1024 bytes, shared with video... Technologies change, don't they?
A fox kit has written a program that draws an image of a paw print (it's also imposed over the programs listing). Actually, the program was composed recently on an emulator, though the idea I had somewhere that time.
Also, can you guess what might be on those tape cassettes?
A fox kit has written a program that draws an image of a paw print (it's also imposed over the programs listing). Actually, the program was composed recently on an emulator, though the idea I had somewhere that time.
Also, can you guess what might be on those tape cassettes?
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Fox (Other)
Size 600 x 612px
File Size 101.8 kB
I actually have a cassette drive that I found a few years ago. If I recall correctly it's for a TRS80. It's a big clunky unit that probably weighs 4 Kilos.
I heard a story the other day about some early computer geeks who had a radio show, and broadcast programs from cassettes over the air which people recorded and successfully used.
The first computer I ever worked on was in about 1970. It consisted of a whole room of huge IBM machines with 1" recording tape on reel-to-reel decks, and the keyboard was a huge IBM Selectric typewriter. These were also the type of machines that used punch cards. My dad was a banker, and I remember seeing the same type of machines and the card reader/writers a couple of years earlier, at his office. Those card readers alone were the size of a small car.
I heard a story the other day about some early computer geeks who had a radio show, and broadcast programs from cassettes over the air which people recorded and successfully used.
The first computer I ever worked on was in about 1970. It consisted of a whole room of huge IBM machines with 1" recording tape on reel-to-reel decks, and the keyboard was a huge IBM Selectric typewriter. These were also the type of machines that used punch cards. My dad was a banker, and I remember seeing the same type of machines and the card reader/writers a couple of years earlier, at his office. Those card readers alone were the size of a small car.
Interesting experience! I've held things like punch cards and tape in my hands, but never seen such devices in action. What a time to live in, seeing information technologies gradually entering our lives, evolving from big business machines and play things to basis of our everyday life.
Oh, don't even get me started! Some of the things that have changed or come along since I was a kid -in only fifty years or so- are astounding. Possibly equally astounding are how little some things have changed.
It's amazing to think that the computing power in one of those rooms full of equipment is far less than what's in a smart watch or some toys today.
It's amazing to think that the computing power in one of those rooms full of equipment is far less than what's in a smart watch or some toys today.
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