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my first computer at work was from Radio Shack, we called it the trash 80.

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My first was an Atari 800. The neighbor kid had a Trash 80 and I always gave his a ration for his monochrome computer. I had a 16 color display! The TRS99/4A was a pretty good machine though.

My first computer was an abacus!


Ok, not really.

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BTW can't wait for NAND flash type storage to replace disk drives. Nothing says reliability and speed like "no moving parts."

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And no sooner do I say that than this appears.

Sweet! How much longer until it comes in at least 100gb and SATA?

Hehe. Don't know. Although I'm guessing because of the extremely low latency (no head seeks! No spin-up!) it will fill the ATA channel more efficiently than a traditional HDD will fill a SATA channel. 66Mhz x 32bits = 2112000000 bits/sec = 251.77 megabytes/sec. So 1/4 GB/Sec. Not bad. It's about what you can expect from a WD Raptor on SATA II 150 (which is a misnomer: SATA I 150 runs @ 150GHz and has a nominal throughput of 1.2 gbit/sec giving us 150MBytes/sec. SATAII 150 doubles the clock to 3.0GHz thereby doubling nominal throughput. This is an NVidia innovation and is NOT the official SATA300, which has not been released as a standard as yet). I for one can't wait 'til they have these puppies on SATA600!

"640k ought to be enough for anybody." .
-- Bill Gates in 1981

It's still amazing what can be done in 640k, if you know how.

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"640k ought to be enough for anybody." . -- Bill Gates in 1981

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This is actually one of those quotes that I think is taken far out of context.

In 1981, 640k was enough for anyone. Just like in 1920, a 20amp household circuit would be plenty for those who did have fridges and the like.

World-class programmers like Steve Gibson are still able to pack a lot into half a meg.

Bren R.

He never said that should be enough for everybody. He said it's enough for the forseeable future. And it was. And they got around the 640K limit when the time came.

The problem nowadays is mass-production programming with drag and drop tools. Back in the day you had to use every trick imaginable to limit the code bloat. Other programmers would smirk at "inelegant" code. Nowadays programmers are more and more part of a collective, just another Borg. And they using Visual Studio and the like where you can take prefab code and drop it into place. C++ is a great language to program in but it is inefficient.

Like Bren said people like Steve Gibson do it the old school way, x86 native machine language, tiny, superfast, tight as a drum. I mean, why should it take 600MB or disk space to install some office tools? Why does my machine need to allocate 35MB of ram just to send emai?