[Year 12 SofDev] Another brick in the software wall

[Kent Beveridge]

OMG Mark...I remember the 'trash' 80 too! (Tandy)

Way back in 'pre-teacher' days for me!  (had one on my desk!!!)



Sooo, does that mean I qualify as a dinosaur???



Kent.



Kent Beveridge
ICT Coordinator & Maths Teacher
kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au<mailto:kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au>

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Sent: Wednesday, 23 October 2013 1:23 PM
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Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Another brick in the software wall

The end of paid operating systems?
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/apple-ends-paid-oses/

(Strokes grey beard)
I remember the good ol' days when the OS came in ROM. As for EPROM... luxury!!

In next week's Greybeard Moment...

I waggle my finger at young people and explain how my 1978 TRS-80 with 4KB of RAM (yes, kilobytes, not megabytes) only had uppercase characters to save on storage.  A full ASCII set is a senseless extravagance, I tell you!

--
Mark Kelly
mark AT vceit DOT com
http://vceit.com

This sentence contains exactly threee erors.



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