On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 20:07:31 +, Duncan Booth wrote:
> Later on the B+ had 64k of RAM and the B+128 had 128k of RAM and in each
> case the additional RAM was paged in as necessary but I don't think the
> RAM in the B was ever expandable.
You could get various expansions to page multiple roms,
Abohfu venant zinkeng gmail.com> writes:
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>
>
>
> Hard drives have been the secondary storage of choice on computers for
many years. They have improved in speed, in capacity, and in cost for over
50 years. It's interesting to look at how the prices have dropped, or,
conversely, how much stor
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The Model B supported more graphics modes, had a six-pin DIN connector
> for a monitor (both the A and B had UHF output for connecting to a
> television, but only the B supported a dedicated monitor), had support
> for an optional floppy disk controller and even an option
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2011/11/30/bbc_micro_model_b_30th_anniversary/
>
> At the time, the BBC Micro memory was (I think) expandable: the Model B
> could be upgraded to 128K of memory, double what Bill Gates allegedly said
> was
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
[...]
>> But no, you can't put the £100 difference down to the price of the RAM
>> even if RAM were the only difference between the two model Micros.
>> There's not enough information to tell how much of that £100
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
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>> The RAM was presumably the only difference between the two models, so
>> as long as Model A cost at least £100 (which seems likely; a bit of
>> quick Googling suggests that it may have been of the order of £400),
Chris Angelico wrote:
> The RAM was presumably the only difference between the two models, so
> as long as Model A cost at least £100 (which seems likely; a bit of
> quick Googling suggests that it may have been of the order of £400), a
> £100 difference can plausibly be called the price of the RA
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> MRAB wrote:
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>> In 1981 the BBC Micro was released. There were 2 versions, model A with
>> 16K and model B was 32K. The price difference was £100, so that's £100
>> for 16K of RAM.
>
> That doesn't follow. The model A might have been £1 (
MRAB wrote:
> In 1981 the BBC Micro was released. There were 2 versions, model A with
> 16K and model B was 32K. The price difference was £100, so that's £100
> for 16K of RAM.
That doesn't follow. The model A might have been £1 (in which case you could
get 16K for £1) or it might have been £1000
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 3:21 AM, Ian Kelly wrote:
>> If you set your sights a bit lower, Google might be able to help. They
>> pretty much have their own copy of the World Wide Web, indexed and
>> cached. I've no idea how many dollars they annually spend on hard
>> drives, but probably it uses SI
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Seymore4Head
> wrote:
>> As a side note, it would be handy to compare HD cost to CD cost.
>> I am still trying to get my own personal copy of the Internet.
>
> If you set your sights a bit lower, Google mig
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Seymore4Head
wrote:
> As a side note, it would be handy to compare HD cost to CD cost.
> I am still trying to get my own personal copy of the Internet.
If you set your sights a bit lower, Google might be able to help. They
pretty much have their own copy of the Wo
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:53:32 -0700, Abohfu venant zinkeng
wrote:
>
> QUESTION
>
> -
>
> Could someone help me with a design and a python program to
>implement that design to solve the above problem?
As a side note, it would be handy to compare HD cost to CD cost.
I am still trying to get m
On 2014-09-27 15:30, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Abohfu venant zinkeng
wrote:
This site was written by a person (in 2009) who had considered this
amazing trend. He collected a lot of data about hard drive capacity
and price. The formula he extrapolated by using the data h
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Abohfu venant zinkeng
wrote:
> This site was written by a person (in 2009) who had considered this amazing
> trend. He collected a lot of data about hard drive capacity and price. The
> formula he extrapolated by using the data he found is
>
> cost per gigabyte =
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Skip Montanaro
> wrote:
> > On Sep 27, 2014 1:06 AM, "Chris Angelico" wrote:
> >>
> >
> >> We are not going to do your homework for you.
> >
> > Perhaps it was a take home test... What then? :-)
>
> Then w
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Skip Montanaro
> wrote:
> > On Sep 27, 2014 1:06 AM, "Chris Angelico" wrote:
> >>
> >
> >> We are not going to do your homework for you.
> >
> > Perhaps it was a take home test... What then? :-)
>
> Then w
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Skip Montanaro
wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2014 1:06 AM, "Chris Angelico" wrote:
>>
>
>> We are not going to do your homework for you.
>
> Perhaps it was a take home test... What then? :-)
Then we are not going to do his take home test for you.
I feel like I'm using a H
On Sep 27, 2014 1:06 AM, "Chris Angelico" wrote:
>
> We are not going to do your homework for you.
Perhaps it was a take home test... What then? :-)
Skip
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On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 4:53 AM, Abohfu venant zinkeng
wrote:
> QUESTION
>
> Could someone help me with a design and a python program to implement that
> design to solve the above problem?
We are not going to do your homework for you.
ChrisA
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Hard drives have been the secondary storage of choice on computers for
many years. They have improved in speed, in capacity, and in cost for over
50 years. It's interesting to look at how the prices have dropped, or,
conversely, how much storage your money will buy now as compared
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