My eldest daughter pointed out that Dangermouse was dated by the evil supercomputer saying "kneel before my 500 Megabytes". When I was a lad ... we had the SDK 85 which was programmed in machine code and had a memory counted in K.
The link is in Russian about the imprisonment of Norman Scarth who is actually 85. He has a complex history including a court hearing which found that he used a chainsaw to fight off bailiffs when he was 75. [a court judgment which is disputed see comments] However, that does not justify imprisoning him for 6 months for recording a court hearing (see the link and ask google to translate it if your Russian is not up to it).
It has got into the Argyll News
Because he has been held such that people cannot get to him to sign paperwork an application for a writ of Habeas Corpus was made today. This has been adjourned until next week.
The English judicial system is really not good at responding to major abuses of human rights by the judicial system.
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Multi-user banking systems on PDP-11s with 512k RAM...:)
Then along came Oracle...:)
My first Spectrum had a whopping 16k of memory. My first hard drive was 100Mb, I well remember selling customers PCs and persuading them to upgrade to 16Mb to get better performance out of Windows 3.1. I've still got an elderly iP133 MHz PC sitting on my home network with a decent 1Gb HDD.
I've just bought a new desktop with 2Gb of memory and 300Gb of hard drive to play with.
That sort of pace of change makes me feel very old.