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Early computers had less than 64k.
Some had only 16 kilobytes and are now referred to as Big Iron because they weighed tons. Which might be why Traveller computers are measured that way.
I saw a conversation on a newsgroup about such computers a few years ago.
One guy said he had one in his basement. When asked he mentioned his heating bill in the winter, upper penninsula Wisconsin or maybe Minnesota i don't remember exactly, was very low due to all the heat the computer put out at idle.
His summer cooling bill was rather high due to the same idle wattage.
Some of the folks on there thing of 8 inch floppy drives as too modern to talk about. Yes, there were 8" floppies before 5.25 inch, before 3.5 inch floppies.
What is a floppy ?
Sorry, too modern of a comversation for me... :-)
Oh, okay. I have a 16 gig memory stick, and a 500 gig external USB hard drive. In 1989, I had an Amiga A1000 computer with 512 megs of ram, and it only had one 880Kilobyte floppy drive I booted from. I used a 1200 baud modem to log into the university system and read my BITNET email.
Only Compuserve was available then, and I couldn't afford it.
How times have changed.
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