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angelbob on Oct 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The State of the Art is Terrible

Youngster? Gee, thanks! I remember writing my first program on a Commodore Pet with 4K of RAM

That thing he's talking about with non-sequential placement of bytes on the drum is well before that.

ramchip on Oct 4, 2011 | [–]

He said "Before even my time" for the drums bit.

0x12 on Oct 4, 2011 | | [–]

And it was blocks not bytes.

jff on Oct 4, 2011 | [–]

Well, but everyone's read "The Story of Mel" :)

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