On Tuesday 24 November 2020 11:18:00 John Hasler wrote: > Mike McClain writes: > > I guess I'm just a little old fashioned. My first computer had > > no storage > > Likewise. > > > ...and my first hard drive was 20M... > > Likewise. > > > ...so having a directory taking up 3.5MB when all I'm using there is > > less than 10KB just doesn't sit well with me. > > I have 278GB of unused disk space on this machine. 3.5MB "wasted" > does not bother me at all. Back when I was coding in hex for the RCA > 1802 and using audio cassettes for storage I worried about single > bytes. Times have changed.
Now that brings back very OLD memories from about 1979 John, when I wrote a commercial tv production aid to run on a CosMac Super Elf. That tv station was still using it several times a day 15 years later, and I have a broadcast cart with several copies of it, and a paper copy bagged up for posterity on a library shelf above me. First useful program I ever wrote and I still have fond memories for the weird architecture, and that architectures capabilities, of the 1802. Every byte counted, and dead stable despite using quite a bit of self-modifying code. But you are right, times have changed. Now I'm 86 yo, and am writing gcode to carve metal parts I need to make things. 5 linux machines running full time here, this one has 32gigs of dram, not the 4k of static ram I built from a $400 kit way back then, on an S-100 board. Keeps me out of the bars don'tcha know. Thanks for the memory tickle, John. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
