Osborne 1 vs. iPad 2

[stormdriver]

http://www.stormdriver.com/blog/the-tech-archive-30-years-of-mobile-computing/

[phatbyte]

And yet, you could save things up to an external device, unlike iPad2 -_-

[Synaesthesia → phatbyte]

That's true. The iPad and iPhone are the first of a new breed of computer.

Just imagine showing someone from that time an iPad with Dropbox's magic. ;)

[ericmoritz]

I had a KayPro II, it was awesome! I remember playing Hunt the Wumpus, Adventure, and some run and jump game made out of ascii art.

[jleyank]

Code bloat's real! I did nice games on a PDP-8 in 4K in FOCAL, and wrote a 2-image swapping wargame on the KayPro II in SBasic in 64K. We also ran 16 users on a 4Mb Vax-11/730. Times change, but man, we've moved a bit to the left on the space/time tradeoff line...

[shasta → jleyank]

Compute time, measured in ops performed, hasn't exactly stayed constant, though.

[beej71]

I will never forget that video RAM started at location 61440 on the Osborne 1.

I should forget, but I won't.

Googling that number reveals various BASIC sources--where's the Osborne 1 emulator?

Here's one more difference: the Osborne 1 was AWESOME. ;-)