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Re: Windows 7 growing fast - ancient computer discussion
22-01-2010 9:08 PM
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Quote from: dgwebb Not sure any home user could find a use for 128bits or more than 48k of RAM.
I had more than that in my first computer - a Commodore 64 which had, as you might guess, 64kB ram.
Re: Windows 7 growing fast
22-01-2010 10:17 PM
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Re: Windows 7 growing fast
22-01-2010 11:15 PM
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Re: Windows 7 growing fast
24-01-2010 8:17 PM
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Re: Windows 7 growing fast
25-01-2010 7:50 PM
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I have just been 'upgraded' at work from Vista to W7. Can't say I am particularly impressed. It is slightly faster to boot, but otherwise just looks like a Vista facelift.
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25-01-2010 8:08 PM
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25-01-2010 8:20 PM
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25-01-2010 8:39 PM
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(and some old log tables)
Re: Windows 7 growing fast
25-01-2010 8:47 PM
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I certainly hope not,i got a thread locked tail end of last year because one of my threads was going off topic so i would appreciate it if this was kept very much on topic,the threads about how well windows 7 is growing and how fast!!
Quote from: Denzil Is this going to turn into another thread reminiscing about old computers :D?
Re: Windows 7 growing fast
25-01-2010 8:54 PM
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so have I mine date from the third quarter of the 50's
Quote from: HPsauce Yep, I've got a nice slide rule.
(and some old log tables)
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25-01-2010 9:13 PM
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Re: Windows 7 growing fast - ancient computer discussion
25-01-2010 11:13 PM
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Type 8-bit Home computer
Release date 23 April 1982
Discontinued 1992[1]
Media Cassette tape
Operating system Sinclair BASIC
CPU Z80 @ 3.5 MHz and equivalent
Memory 16 KB / 48 KB / 128 KB
Re: Windows 7 growing fast - ancient computer discussion
26-01-2010 12:20 AM
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Re: Windows 7 growing fast - ancient computer discussion
26-01-2010 12:26 AM
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But - yes I too learnt my electrical engineering using log tables with sin, cosine, tan etc etc., and then at some stage a Texas Instruments TI58 programmable calculator http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/texas_insturments_ti_58.html
and then a Nascom 2 - using Z80 assembler and then later added CPM
Re: Windows 7 growing fast - ancient computer discussion
26-01-2010 8:31 AM
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