tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080766448870515431.post6359896357934248824..comments2022-11-25T05:52:22.679-06:00Comments on Staying Home... and Loving It: "Gig" is up and running!!!Caeseriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303057873033231577noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080766448870515431.post-82346194594553437542008-09-02T17:37:00.000-05:002008-09-02T17:37:00.000-05:00Aw sweet, I want one of THOSE!!!! I know NOTHING o...Aw sweet, I want one of THOSE!!!! I know NOTHING of BASIC, just DOS. To me, it's Star Trek technology that you can buy an SD memory card that would hold this entire computer's hard drive. It puts into perspective all the drives with so many GIGAbytes of memory, just to run all this extra STUFF that people expect a computer to run nowadays, when 1 G can indeed run an entire computer all by itself for the basic computer stuff. Kind of redefines what you actually need in a computer.Caeseriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09303057873033231577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080766448870515431.post-23773734294082230342008-09-01T15:23:00.000-05:002008-09-01T15:23:00.000-05:00The first computer my family got when I was a kid ...The first computer my family got when I was a kid was a Timex-Sinclair 1000. It had <I>one thousand</I> bytes of memory. It was the size of an adding machine. My dad had it hooked up to an old black-n-white TV in the basement. We learned BASIC on it. That's the extent of the programming knowledge I ever acquired. But I did have a heavy, $500 used, laptop in college. I think it had like 500K of memory.<BR/><BR/>It astounds me nowadays that you can have a tiny chip with a gigabyte on it, that's like Star Trek technology to me.D. Lollardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02897835138834032200noreply@blogger.com