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Re:NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blam... by dvirsky on Friday September 21, 2018 @08:02PM (#18043612)
Luxury! My first computer (Sinclair ZX Spectrum) had 48KB RAM total, and IIRC 8KB of BASIC RAM available.
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Re:NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blam... by placebo on Friday September 21, 2018 @10:49PM (#18044181)
Guess I win this round, unless there are older farts than me - Commodore VIC-20 with 3.5KB RAM which was plenty for me to do really cool things with in BASIC and 6502 machine language)
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Re:NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blam... by tssva on Sunday September 23, 2018 @02:55AM (#18049771)
My first computer was a TRS-80 Model 1 with Level 1 BASIC. 4KB of RAM and 4KB of ROM.

It predated the VIC-20 by just under 3 years. You might have had 3.5KB free for BASIC programs but the VIC-20 had a comparatively spacious 5KB of RAM and 20KB of ROM.

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Re:NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blam... by placebo on Sunday September 23, 2018 @09:36AM (#18051011)
I did start earlier than the VIC-20 (with TRS-80 Model 2 at school) but you definitely take the title :)
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