29 Apr
2012
29 Apr
'12
8:19 p.m.
indeed just look at how it changed automation in the industrial world and
how much of that gear is still in use............
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>wrote:
On 04/29/2012 11:04 PM, Adrian Stoness wrote:
is not an old fart and happens to love old tech
its amazing what we were
able to do with these things
I agree 100%. There was an amazing degree of creativity involved when
CPU, memory, and storage resources were so limited. Thirty years ago I
wrote real code on machines that had less system memory than a single
communications buffer that I typically allocate these days. The change
in mindset is amazing!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA