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Old 12-06-2010, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by pmrid View Post
As I read this, I heard an echo of a much younger mini-me in a land far far away in a time long forgotten saying that 640KB of RAM was heaps and I can't imagine what possible use I will have for a 10MB hard disk or a modem faster than 2400 baud. Ah me oh my!

Peter

Peter in 1969/70 we upgraded the memory in our DEC PDP8 from 2k to 32k! We were stoked. Machine code was the go, as higher level languages just used too much memory. What we have now is absolute LUXURY!

This is a reply to you as well Rick. I don't know how to do multiple quotes.

Bert

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