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Scrollable weather radar with only 8MB RAM (i.imgur.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/diyelectronics@programming.dev
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Powered by ESP32-4848S040, an all-in-one ESP32-S3 + 4" 480x480 TFT display.

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[–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

“Only” 8MB. Oh, you sweet summer child. I remember when 8MB seemed like so much of an upgrade from my previous computer, which had 256k. And the one with 256k had a full hurricane tracker running on it.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    With how many colors, what resolution, and how many features?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    How many colors? Why that hurricane tracker could display a glorious 16 colors at a time! And an astounding 64000 pixels! And if I borrowed my friend's modem, we could dial up the local Sears to get the latest storm info at a blazing 300baud! Truly, it was an amazing machine.

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    • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Old enough to remember when that was a good amount of RAM for a PC.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Eight megabytes and continuously swapping. ;)

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Weird that we used to have to use paging memory but Windows still felt way faster back then.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    At one point I was running BeOS on a Pentium 75 with 16MB RAM, later upgraded to a K6-2 266 with 128MB. Those machines, particularly the K6-2, felt faster than anything else I've ever used, and was better at certain things than any other computer I've ever used.

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    • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Is there a repo link to see how it was done?

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