Moon shot in 4kb - could you?

[Ken Fitlike]

http://www.abc.net.au/science/moon/computer.htm

also:

http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1494/ddj0006hc/0101hc001.htm

Discuss.

edit2: Actually, this might be broadened into a more general question: is 1970's technology more reliable than today's?

Voyager's back-up systems activated (http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1494/ddj0006hc/0101hc001.htm)

edit1: this could probably be moved to GD - I just saw the new Tech board appear all naked and lonely and couldn't resist scoring the first post. ;)

[Prelude]

>Actually, this might be broadened into a more general question: is 1970's technology more reliable than today's?
Simpler tends to be more reliable if it is built well. There is less to go wrong. :D

-Prelude

[Sayeh]

Moon shot in 4KB-- Could I Do it?

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I'm the only one on this board who could and has done that. I've also run Nuclear Reactor Fuel Handling Machines and other such equipment in that 4K environment.

enjoy.

[MrWizard]

Originally posted by Sayeh
enjoy.

enjoy what your arrogance?

[Driveway]

Oooh, make a comment about my sig

[Sayeh]

enjoy what your arrogance?

Uh, no. I meant "have a nice day". If I'd meant to be arrogant I would have ended with something like "that is all." or "that will be all."

You asked a simple question, I gave a simple, and truthful answer. The only other 2 people on this board who even _know_ how to work in the 4K environment left the board many months ago.

[Govtcheez]

> The only other 2 people on this board who even _know_ how to work in the 4K environment left the board many months ago.

Not challenging you, but who? Sunlight? Zen?

[Ken Fitlike]

Does this (http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/m.kruger/rcu/computers/rockwell/rockwellaim65.html) count?

Not my first experience but certainly an 'experience'. And yes, that is a till receipt roll at the back on the left.

>>enjoy.<<

I did. Thankyou. :)

...and no, i'm not fit to compute the merest operational parameters of most people around cprog, let alone even contemplate a 'moon-shot' - unless in a very figurative sense. ;)

edit: actually I don't remember the AIM 65 being as fast as 1Mhz and I only recall 1kb of RAM, but it was a while ago now.

[Fordy]

LOL...Ken...what the hell is that!??

What did you used to do with it??

[Ken Fitlike]

>>What did you used to do with it??<<

Not so much what I did to it but what it did to me *shudder*.

Short answer: not a lot.

Long answer: It was used for teaching 6502 (8-bit processor) assembly 'programming'. I recall a little LED display at the front where you could see the line you were typing in and the till receipt at the back rattled out everything: code, results, smoke. The keyboard was about half the width of a standard pc keyboard today; but at least the instruction set was tiny in comparison to processors today. ;)

[Fordy]

That thing was released the year I was born.....

I had a ZX spectrum when I was about 8....but appart from frogger or chucky egg it didnt get put to much use........it burned out (smoke & all) when I was about 10........from then I didnt get another computer until I left Uni....

Do you still have one of those?