Only need 50,000 of these to run Word!!

izzop · 11 Mar 2011 at 19:27

Might have already been posted today, but came across this on the Beeb...

Beeb Magazine

Only 30 years ago!!

Tombstone · 11 Mar 2011 at 19:31

I had one, when you think about it, was quite surprising what we could do with 1k.

NotAGolf · 11 Mar 2011 at 19:33

Hmm, I read it as "world" and was expecting some kind of break through energy source. I'll leave you old chaps to your childhood memories

Woden · 11 Mar 2011 at 19:34

My first was a Commodore 64 and it was the bees knees (this was waaay before shizzle was invented). I remember having a proto-word processor for it but for the life of me can't remember its name. It was mainly used for Monster Mayhem anyway.

izzop · 11 Mar 2011 at 19:38

Woden said:
My first was a Commodore 64 and it was the bees knees (this was waaay before shizzle was invented). I remember having a proto-word processor for it but for the life of me can't remember its name. It was mainly used for Monster Mayhem anyway.

Commodore 64 was also my first, for some reason I always wanted the 128 when I first clapped eyes on it, not to mention an Amiga.

Never did own a Spectrum.

Cosimo · 11 Mar 2011 at 19:41

We had a happy birthday thread a few days ago:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18249220

OcUK are always first.

mmj_uk · 11 Mar 2011 at 19:44

TBH that's a bit of an exaggeration, programmers back then worked with what they were given and created some real masterpieces with very limited resources.

The Amiga (with only 512KB RAM) had WordsWorth which was as good as Word, if Word needs 50MB to run that just speaks badly of programmers today imo.

Woden · 11 Mar 2011 at 20:19

mmj_uk said:
TBH that's a bit of an exaggeration, programmers back then worked with what they were given and created some real masterpieces with very limited resources.

The Amiga (with only 512KB RAM) had WordsWorth which was as good as Word, if Word needs 50MB to run that just speaks badly of programmers today imo.

I think your using rose tinted glasses here. I am not bashing WordsWorth but how good was it with embedded tables, a few hundred pages, mailmerge and, most importantly, wordart?

mmj_uk · 11 Mar 2011 at 20:55

Woden said:
I think your using rose tinted glasses here. I am not bashing WordsWorth but how good was it with embedded tables, a few hundred pages, mailmerge and, most importantly, wordart?

It obviously didn't cope too well with large complex documents given the hardware restrictions but my point was it could do the same basics using only a fraction of memory.

I'm sure Word probably uses upwards of 50MB on just loading a blank document.

Luke · 11 Mar 2011 at 20:57

izzop said:
always wanted the 128 when I first clapped eyes on it.

I had a C128. Aside from the disk drive it may as well have been a C64, it lived in C64 mode all the time!

Linwig · 11 Mar 2011 at 21:16

Anyone old enough to remember 3D monster maze on the ZX81? It was probably the very first FPS (without the shooting). Terrifying!

UncleRuckus · 11 Mar 2011 at 21:34

I had 128k speccy I loved it so!

ElectroBlaster · 11 Mar 2011 at 23:48

I had a ZX81... sometime around 1983 and didnt do jack all with it lol.
I lusted over the C64 but ended up with a rubber keyed 48k speccy instead and would visit jumble sales looking for decent tape decks, sad but fun times