Old-manupship (was Re: Tomorrow at Ceremony!)

[Chris Rapier]

On 8/18/06, Christopher tm <xopher.tm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/18/06, Brian J. Parker <brian.j.parker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Me?  I probably was playing Legend of Zelda, or Zork on my Commodore
> > 64
>
> My Vic 20 ( http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=252 )
> envied your massive 64000 bytes of RAM. I don't remember that there
> were any games for it other than text adventure RPGs (which were
> really suckariffic even for the Dark Times.)

Sorry, but your Vic 20 was a monster of computing power next to my first machine
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=263&st=1
1K of RAM! Yes thats right, 1024 bytes of randomly addressable
goodness. Of course, only 900 or so bytes were actually available for
use.

I didn't even have a tape for it so anytime I wanted to play a game I
had to type the whole thing in everytime I turned the computer on.
Yowza!

(ps. brian actually had 65336 bytes of ram. 2 to the 16th after all).