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   From: georgefour@btinternet.com   
      
   (Everything snipped!)   
      
   This thread is pure nostalgia!   
   Remember "Scrumpi and chips" with its 256 bytes of RAM?   
   Yes, 256 bytes!   
   And the NASCOM, with a massive 1K RAM?   
   They taught economy in programming, something which seems to have been lost.   
   Then there was Superboard II, with 4k of useable RAM.   
   The early Commodore PETs had 8K, and I only ran into RAM shortage once!   
   (I still run software under Windows XP and QuickBasic 4.5 originally written   
   on the PET   
    in 1978! With very few mods.)   
   With PET basic, if you went into the Monitor, (not the screen, the Machine   
   Code Monitor)   
    you could point the next line number back to itself, and then although the   
   programme would   
   run, it couldn't be listed!   
      
   Ah!  Nostalgia ain't what it used to be!   
      
   g4egg, who remembers "PRESS PLAY ON TAPE #1"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)