Re: A lovely comment

[Akim Demaille]

> Le 23 janv. 2021 à 00:36, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> a écrit :
> 
> On 1/13/21 1:28 AM, Hans Åberg wrote:
>> My first computer was a SWTPC 6800 at 980 KHz!
> 
> Hah, the first computer I used was a GE 225 codesigned by Steven Spielberg's 
> father. It took 36 µs to add two integers, and its memory cycle time was 21 
> µs. Its RAM had only 8,192 20-bit words, which I had to share with up to 19 
> other simultaneous users.
> 
> https://www.ge.com/news/reports/basic-necessities-how-ge-helped-launch-the-computing-language-that-changed-the-world

Wow!  I was totally unaware of this story.

The first computers I touched, at school, were a ZX81, and later a TRS-80 Model 
I.  According to Wikipedia, it ran at 1.78 MHz.  I remember the vibrant 
graphical effects of games such as Dancing Demon 
(https://youtu.be/YNT7nVOugTM?t=49).