Bits & Bytes - ROM and RAM

Billy checks out a BASIC ROM cartridge in the Atari 800.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• atari
• 800
• atari800
• LubaGoy
• BillyVan
• tvo
• tvontario
• 8bit
• 8-bit
• 1980's
• 80's
• 80s
• canada
• computers
• ontario
• BASIC
• programming

[aartie]

Also, Luba lives next door to me, so it's all very weird.

[ClassicGarth]

@aartie Ha! Small world. I bet she hasn't seen these shows since they were made, but clearly people are still seeking them out and enjoying them.

[holodocdr]

I recorded the series on Beta in 1983 (if it hasnt faded by now I have it). Any idea if this was released on DVD? I cant keep these :(

[ClassicGarth]

There is no official DVD release, though there are probably bootlegs out there. Some people trade & collect these things.

[axxaxaxx]

how old is this

[ClassicGarth]

This series originally aired in about 1983. Even though it was for the novice computer user, it goes into remarkable detail about the inner workings of computers.

[rbairos1]

The first time I saw this show I was 12 years old in my grandmothers living room. The second time is now, on a 32" LCD, Quad 2.4Ghz CPU, downloaded via an optical isp in a high-tech computer graphics company.

:)

[ask4fish]

Computers without hard drives (floppy drive only) were widely available into the early 90s.

[DancingMadRB3]

Anymore ROM and RAM seem not to matter much in the days of high capacity HDD's and SSD's, sure having more RAM does matter considering what operating system you use but on linux it seems that ROM and RAM are just buzzwords on how it uses both ROM and RAM.

Especially where SWAP is concerned.

[manoelramon]

When I was a kid.. every Saturday morning 7:00am, I used to turn on my TV in a brazilian channel called TV Cultura to watch a TV program called Bits & Bytes. I learnt everything about computer on this program and I am very glad for finding one of those episodes on internet today.

[summer20105707]

How relevant your computer remains depends on you the user or programmer. Remember that these computers that are sold in stores today are yesterday's supercomputers.

[sweiland75]

rumpack

[jhonnydrama]

wow that's luba man did she ever get fat

[pcmarriotthk]

ah...the golden age of computing!

[TOMMY95215]

This would be great for my teacher to use in ICT simply because he sucks at explaining stuff.

[zorinlynx]

Hey there, do you happen to have any episodes of "The Computer Room" which was a TVO show from the mid-to-late 80s? I used to watch it as a kid and would *love* to see even a single episode or part of one again. :)

[StevenBradleyScott]

ROYAL CANADIAN AIRFARCE!!

[Tomsavini666]

This reminds me of this computer I had forever ago it had a 30gb hdd and 126mb ram, and idk what the processor was but it was beast, but now my computer has to bae at least 100 times better, 2tb hdd, 8gb ram, i7 920 2.6ghz, and a graphics card to boot, my my how technology has really taken soar.