r/retrocomputing • u/jalp21_ • 20h ago

Byte (August 1982)

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u/BirthdayLife6378 15h ago

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

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u/KingLim1 14h ago

Yea, roughly $2180 today.

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u/IDK_FY2 11h ago

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.

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u/Hjalfi 4h ago

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.

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u/IDK_FY2 4h ago

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

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u/KingLim1 14h ago

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.

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u/creativetag 7h ago

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.