» Mon Aug 30, 2010 8:49 am That little Aquarius I linked earlier came with 4k of ram as I recall. You could get the plug-in expansion for it which would take it up to 16k. If you wrote a program that caused the machine to run out of memory (such as by being too large), the whole machine would crash when you ran it and you'd have to powercycle it.
You could stick those data cassette tapes into a regular tape player and play it, and you'd hear the data. You couldn't hear the individual beeps or anything but it was way slow as data goes. More recent data sounds static-like, and this did not. It reminded you of some weird feedback. You could kinda hear which sound was the 1 and which was the 0 although you could never transcribe any pattern out of it, it was too fast for that..
You could stick those data cassette tapes into a regular tape player and play it, and you'd hear the data. You couldn't hear the individual beeps or anything but it was way slow as data goes. More recent data sounds static-like, and this did not. It reminded you of some weird feedback. You could kinda hear which sound was the 1 and which was the 0 although you could never transcribe any pattern out of it, it was too fast for that..
Wow that sounds really cool. I love old technology even though in todays world I'm surounded by newer stuff, the old stuff is still so cool.
