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On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:03:56AM -0400, Kenneth Brody thus spoke:
> The first computer I ever used (though I never got to actually see
> it), had a few hundred K of storage available (IIRC) for our
> account, and a 110bps full-duplex connection.  (I have to point out
> to my kids that there is no "M", or even a "K", prefix there.)

I first used an Apple ][+ with 48KB in grade school.  First one I owned was
an Apple ][e with 128KB.  That's 64KB stock, and the 80-column extended
expansion card with another 64KB.  Thing is, it's not all one contiguous
128KB pool, since a 6502 chip can only access 64KB at a time.  So it had to
page flip to access the expanded RAM, and that was not the best practise in
the world.  Oh, and Apple floppies were formatted to 117KB.  Hard Drives
were really small (5MB, I think), and only BBS operators really had them.

People whose VIC-20s were their first system had it even worse.  That thing
had 5KB of RAM, if I recall.  The C64 had 64KB.

Thing to remember about that, though, is that both the VIC-20 and C64 had
ROM as well.  The Apples did not.  Looks like the TI-99/4 had only 15KB of
RAM, but also had ROM.  The school had those as well.

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