[R-390] Progress?

[John Saeger]

Barry wrote:

> The first Atari had 16k of chip memory and used the first VLSI chip made
> for home computers. It ran at 1.77 mHz.

Who said Atari?  The first ones came with a Combat cart which is where the
ROM was and they were 2KB.  Most games had 4KB of ROM but eventually there
were carts with bankswitching that went up to 16KB and more.  They had 128
*bytes* of RAM and it's one of the most difficult machines to program for
ever made.  Kinda like a *real man's* computer from a programmer's point of
view.  In fact to this day, a certain number of young programmers coming of
age like to prove their manhood by writing a game for it.  Funny, I got
interested in the old radios as a way of getting away from the Atari.  But
*NO*.  *SOMEBODY* had to bring it up.  ;-)

John