[sf-lug] PC with only 4 GiB of installed RAM (was the most recent: "some notes..."

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu):

> Whippersnappers!  ;-)
> 
> Back in my starving student days, to get extra storage, since
> I didn't have the 25 cents to spare in my meager budget to buy 100
> new punch cards (each of which only had 12 rows x 80 columns - so
> 960 bits, or 120 bytes per card ... 12,000 bytes for your hard
> earned quarter (or 2 bits, or 6,000 bytes per bit, just to make
> things really confusing by mixing monetary and data units).
> But you only got all those bytes if it was in binary....

"Binary"!  You nouveau riche types.  Back in my day, we could only
afford unary.  (And we were grateful!)

(Watch out, or we'll end up doing the whole Four Yorkshiremen skit.)