LowTide Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 Oh these Padawans........old Geezer talk to follow.........Why I remember a project we were doing for the U.S. Department of Transportation for Railway Safety Signaling.....and.....well we had Intel 8080‘s with 2K of Ram. One day it was announced we were going to get 4K of Ram. We broke out the bubbly.....oh the feats we would be able to accomplish with 4K!!!!! We threw a heck of a party.....but not much coding got done the following day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hades Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 8051 was my first true love 🙂 It had the whole 128 bytes of RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal_Cobra Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 The Apollo Lunar Module only had 2K of core memory. I'm pretty sure my iPhone could've ran everything and then some that a 1960's NASA Mission Control center that was using IBM mainframes 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hades Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 There should be a slot for 8" floppy somewhere. Or punch cards 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mh9162013 Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 During WW2, the total combined computing capacity of the Allies was less than what you buy in a birthday card at the store that sings happy birthday. And everyone readily accepts that such a card is disposable, at least on a hardware level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyFish Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Equinox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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beav_can Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Looks like the Equinox is an 8-layer circuit board. You can see the 8 little white outlined boxes in the upper middle edge of the board. There is a #1 in the first box, for layer 1. Only reason I know is I do PCB Design and development for a living, and that's the way I indicate my layer stacks as well. 🙂 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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