1) Apple II plus with pulse dial at 110 or 300 baud, once a week or less in 1984 and make sure nobody needs to use the phone, the program that came with the modem or my hacked up version with better throughput.
2) local phone numbers, that use of the word "server" would have been unknown to me
3) again, what's a server?
4) limited discussion, games was the focus, my memory is probably wrong
5) the abbreviated word "tech" would not appear until at least a decade later. Programming was offline in books, class and classmates; not online. It was limited, flaky chat, no "topics" except games
It has 64 kilobytes. The definition of kilobyte and megabyte (and I presume gigabyte, among people who could afford caring about them) were universally agreed to be binary.
Programming was "cooked" before the current Artificial Inference hype. I am not saying reducing the tedium is not beneficial. Where is the innovation, attribution and intelligence?
This website was made by Thomas Bloom, a mathematician who likes to think about the problems Erdős posed. Technical assistance with setting up the code for the website was provided by ChatGPT -from the FAQ
That's 1 byte smaller than `LDA #0`, but not faster. And you don't have enough registers to waste them -- being able to do `STZ` and the `(zp)` addressing mode without having to keep 0 in Z or Y were small but soooo convenient things in the 65C02.
2) local phone numbers, that use of the word "server" would have been unknown to me
3) again, what's a server?
4) limited discussion, games was the focus, my memory is probably wrong
5) the abbreviated word "tech" would not appear until at least a decade later. Programming was offline in books, class and classmates; not online. It was limited, flaky chat, no "topics" except games
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