Duane Percox writes:
Today, when lots of people buy 300MHz, 32MB home computers just to play
games and write homework assignments, it may be difficult to understand
the limitations that software engineers faced 30 years ago.
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Responding to Duane, Bruce makes a good point as did Duane.  If
everyone chimes in on this one it will probably overload the archives
but I just gotta put in my 2 pesos worth.

I got started in 1971 (yeah that's less than 30 yr) on a Cogar System 4.
Max memory for everything: tape drivers, printers, video display, etc.
was 8K.  Period.  You did not bother to put "Please" in error messages.

jt