Rapid Fire RAM Test: TRS-80 Model 16B 8 MB Checkerboard Test
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- Опубліковано 15 бер 2023
- How long does it take to test all 8 MB of RAM on my Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 16B? Find out in 52 short seconds! My Realistic Chronomatic 260 alarm clock serves as our timer for our test.
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I love your Realistic clock. P.S. that was a fast RAM test 🙂
I admit I may have a problem when it comes to Radio Shack clocks…I’ve got four alarm clocks (Chronomatic/Chronosette/Chronofone) and the big-number Micronta clock from the ‘80s. I’ve been fascinated with them since I was a kid.
I hope you didn't cause any phosphor burn on the CRT by leaving the same image on the screen for nearly two hours. It should take longer than that to happen, but now that nobody is making new CRTs anymore, I don't like to risk it.
I cranked the brightness and contrast way down for that particular reason. It’s why the room was so dark. 😁
Guess you could work with very large data files now. Maybe make a text based adventure with every "room" and it's contents represented by one byte. (Always wanted to do that)
I like it - it’d be an adventure game that takes a year to conquer. 😁. Thanks for watching!
What do you plan to do with the 16B with 8mb of ram? Would you do a BBS or something?
I’m honestly not sure what I’ll do with that much RAM. For most software, 1 MB was a lot. Some clever folks have adapted GNU development tools for these machines with more than 1 MB, so I may give those a spin and see what it’s like to use familiar Linux dev tools on XENIX.