On 02/12/2018 11:29 AM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 02/12/2018 11:09 AM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 02/12/2018 10:45 AM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 02/11/2018 12:28 PM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
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About 1980 I purchased an Apple 2+ it came loaded wit 16K of ram,Yes
16K.
I didn't get a computer until 1982 and it was a Commodore VIC-20 with
5K RAM. However, later I did add a 24K expansion.
BTW, I wrote a BASIC expansion that fit in 8K. I got a lot in there.
I used to enter programs from various Apple magazines on the
keyboard, some were in basic and some were in machine language.
one day a magazine had a machine language program for an Analog clock,
But it required 24K of memory, I only had 16K.
I wonder how much memory a digital clock would take. Probably a lot
less.
What to do? I agonized over it for a few days as I REALLY wanted
that clock.
So finally I went and bought the extra 8 1K chips I needed for
$360.00 cdn, Well I got my clock and to this day I wear an analog
wris****ch and have an analog clock hanging in the living room. :-)
Rene
We can still get the voice broadcasts of WWV and WWVH/nist on
shortwave radio
https://tf.nist.gov/stations/iform.html
Rene
Timepieces are really *necessary* couldn't live without one'
Ferinstance I just did a series of time checks on my PC with these results.
Boot time to desktopÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* 56 seconds
time to awake from sleepÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* 3 seconds
Time to shutdownÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* 6 seconds
Now I can spend the rest of the day knowing that the universe in general
is running as it should.Â* :-)
Rene
Big Ben is the name of the Bell, not the clock (believe)
Rene