David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) on nostr

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

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Yesterday I went to a museum that contained, in its displays about ‘the 1900s’:

The computer I learned to program on.
The first PC I owned.
The washing machine that was in the house I rented as a second-year undergrad.

I am officially old now.

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SatsAndSports · 4w

I learned about cryptography in uni in the late 1900's Back in my day, RSA and MD5 were good enough for public key crypto and hashing respectively

Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 · 4w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqncxka2nmkqkndk4wkuf3tz3l39z9m8xax3aen3h8tvudwgjmf5mq4uv2v2 Chatting to a 6th year (~17yo) today, mentioned that the first computer I used (ZX Spectrum) had 16kB of RAM. Forget comparisons with their phone, it was probably less powerful than thei...