In the good old days, we'd count "1, 2, many ..."

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Lindsay Morris
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On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Richard Sims <rbs AT bu DOT edu> wrote:

> On May 28, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Thorneycroft, Doug wrote:
>
> > OK, I think I have you all beat on the early high tech front.
> > Commodore VIC-20 with a whopping 5K memory, and a cassette player
> > for storage.
>
> If you're going to be like that...
> I had a MITS Altair 8800 with 256 bytes of memory, where you would step
> through memory to then toggle bits on and off via sense switches beneath
> LEDs.
> I think we should stop there, rather than go back further, to desk
> calculators and comptometers. :-)
>
>    Richard Sims
>