[R-390] Progress?

[Todd Bigelow - PS]

blw wrote:

> > Leo, you just made my day.  Some of my geek friends are always putting
> > down vacuum tube technology and using PCs/computers to illustrate their
> > point. I'm gonna have some fun!
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ
>
> Todd,
>
> Your friends sound like they need to know more about computers. The first
> computers were tube monsters. Hundreds of tubes! Memory was hardwired. You
> got out the soldering irons when you needed to change programs.
>
> The first Atari had 16k of chip memory and used the first VLSI chip made for
> home computers. It ran at 1.77 mHz.
>
> Barry

Yeah, but that was all the 'past'. They're only concerned with what's now and
new next week. This'll show 'em!  *evil cackle*