(March 13, 2015 at 1:51 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Yeah, the first time my son really made me feel old was when he asked me what computer I learnt on -- a Commodore PET, like this one:
"What's that thing on the side, Dad?"
"That's the tape drive."
"Tape deck? Why did it have a tape deck?"
"No, tape drive. Kind of like a disk drive, only it used magnetic tape, a cassette, instead of a disk."
"Wow, I bet that could store a lot."
"No, it held about 20 K per side."
"20 K? [laughs] How much memory did it have?"
"Uh, 4 K Ram, and BASIC stored in ROM."
"4 K?! [loud laughter] What year was that, Dad, 1931?!"
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