25 Nov
2002
25 Nov
'02
10:45 a.m.
From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Oh no!
Tony has brought 4 bit computers into the world of being
useful. We are just lucky that one can't make a useful
0 bit computer.
Dwight
So what? People still did useful work on those
machines. I wrote a
database program to store my comic book collection on a computer with 2K
of effective memory and a rubber "chiclet" keyboard using cassette tape
for storage. Are you saying this was't real?
One of my related interests is programmable calculators (which are really
computers IMHO -- or at least I've love to see a sane definition which
excludes them). I've been using an HP65 (100 program steps, 10 registers
(variables)), an HP67 (224 progam steps, 26 variables), and so on. And
from the published software I have for these machines, I'll bet that
'real work' was done using them.
-tony