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What was Coding like 40 years ago? [video] (youtube.com)
2 points by AlexeyBrin on April 21, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


It was really, really hard.

First of all we to scrabble around in the bit-bucket to find 8 used bits, that weren't too badly damaged and hammer them together into a single byte. We had to do that 1024 times, just to get a spare kilobyte. By the time we'd done that, our working day was over.




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