(December 8, 2018 at 6:35 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Haha that reminds me of a story. I had a Radio Shack Color Computer, and when almost all my friends had C-64s, I bought a memory kit to hard-upgrade my comp to 512Kb RAM. I had to cut jumpers, pry out chips, and so on-- it wasn't plug-and-play like today's RAM.
When I told all those C-64 guys I now had 512Kb ram, I expected jealousy. Instead I was greeted with laughter-- they openly mocked me, saying that such a huge amount of RAM wasn't even possible, and calling me a big, fat liar.
Of course, I could do only two things with all that high-powered sexiness: use it as a RAM drive, which meant loading about 3 floppy disks worth of content and hoping to God I didn't get a power spike, or use it for sound editing. With 512KB I was able to make about THIRTY seconds of edited sounds. . . samples at different pitches, reverb, etc. Basically, I was the real-life, twelve year-old version of this:
Old times when one wrote a program then save it to a tape. It was... different.
The other day, my nephew was complaing about the load time of Empire:total war.
I felt old.
