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Re:Sinclair ZX81 turns 40 today by colejohnson66 on Friday March 05, 2021 @07:02PM (#26363896)
Well, the Atari 2600 had a whopping one hundred and twenty eight bytes of RAM. 128 bytes. Literally just 7 address lines worth of data. (The cartridge has 12 address lines)
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Re:Sinclair ZX81 turns 40 today by tinus_hn on Friday March 05, 2021 @08:17PM (#26364343)
True, but that kind of computer runs code from ROM. The ZX81 ran Basic programs from that 1k of RAM.
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Re:Sinclair ZX81 turns 40 today by colejohnson66 on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:47PM (#26388905)
Ah! I forgot about that.
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