• HarriPotero@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    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.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • well5H1T3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      5kB of RAM should be enough for everyone

      I believe so too, on a micro-controller