Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 7 months agoWhen did you get your first phone? First computer? What was it?message-squaremessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down11
arrow-up157arrow-down1message-squareWhen did you get your first phone? First computer? What was it?Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 7 months agomessage-square72fedilink
minus-squareHarriPotero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-27 months agoI got my first phone in 1998. It was a nokia 8110, aka the ‘banana phone’. I got my first computer in 1989. It was a Commodore VIC-20. I still have it. 5kB of RAM should be enough for everyone.
minus-squareTrollivier@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoWe had a Vic 20 as well! In 1984. I was 4 years old.
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoWow. In 84 it cost about a dollar per minute to talk on a cell phone. That’s when minimum wage was $3.35 an hour. So you’d have to work for 20 minutes to afford one minute of talk time if you were a minimum wage worker.
minus-squarewellDuuh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months ago 5kB of RAM should be enough for everyone I believe so too, on a micro-controller
I got my first phone in 1998. It was a nokia 8110, aka the ‘banana phone’.
I got my first computer in 1989. It was a Commodore VIC-20. I still have it. 5kB of RAM should be enough for everyone.
We had a Vic 20 as well! In 1984. I was 4 years old.
Wow. In 84 it cost about a dollar per minute to talk on a cell phone. That’s when minimum wage was $3.35 an hour. So you’d have to work for 20 minutes to afford one minute of talk time if you were a minimum wage worker.
Ok yeah I’m old. Thanks :P
I believe so too, on a micro-controller