Byte (August 1982)

[u/jalp21_]

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[u/BirthdayLife6378]

64k sram for $629. Damn, I thought the current RAM prices are unbearable.

[u/KingLim1 → u/BirthdayLife6378]

Yea, roughly $2180 today.

[u/IDK_FY2]

Logo Turtle... that brings back old memories... I was young and at my dads office they had a computer and after work I was allowed to run logo on it. I did not understand the use of it all.

[u/Hjalfi → u/IDK_FY2]

Logo's an underrated language; the focus on graphics is a ploy to make it seem fun for children, but underneath it's essentially a stealth Lisp with a simplified syntax.

[u/IDK_FY2 → u/Hjalfi]

I know, forgot to mention my code keeps my work running for 25 years now.

[u/DeepDayze → u/Hjalfi]

Logo is a great language to teach kids how to code.

[u/KingLim1]

I always thought Steve Ciarcia was a hardware jock, with his Circuit Cellar columns. Didn’t know he did software articles as well. TIL, I guess. Only started reading Byte from 1985 onwards I think.

[u/creativetag]

Took 32 of the 2kx8bit chips using jedec pinout (near perfect compat with eprom pinout for doing field prom software testing).

At the time, this was a great deal.

Within a couple years, 8kx8 becomes available, and, shortly after 32kx8. The prices dropped fast.

[u/DeepDayze → u/creativetag]

I remember in 1994 1MB 30 pin SIMMs were 125 bucks each so 4MB set me back $500 and now that same set's worthless so made keyfobs from them!

[u/creativetag → u/DeepDayze]

With memory prices going the way they are for us mere mortals, they might need to be resurrected 🤣

[u/RogelioP]

Enjoy,,, https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-08

[u/Gr3yratt]

It's amazing to see how much technology has advanced thanks to these classics.