m.roth@5-cent.us a écrit :
*heh* I remember the first computer I owned, and my ex and a friend violated the warranty on the RadShack CoCo, opened it up, and doubled the memory for a birthday present. Then, I had 32K ram! (Are you sure you didn't mean 512K RAM?)
No, 512 Byte. Here's one similar :
http://www.computermuseum-mannheim.de/images/pic_g/siemens_8080_1g.jpg
The thing had to be programmed in Assembler using a hex keyboard.
My dad worked at a lab at Siemens and brought one of these things home, along with my first two computer books : "Binäre Algebra" and "Logische Schaltkreise" (logical circuits). My first program were flowcharts on paper that I had to convert to hex code and poke into the computer.
Folks who say the Linux command line isn't comfortable don't know what they're talking about :o)