Yes, the Vic had 5K of RAM in total, but only 3583 bytes of it were available in BASIC. It's incredible how we could get anything done in such tiny memory.
When I lived on the Isle of Skye in the early to mid 80s, nothing opened on a Sunday. If you wanted to buy a Sunday newspaper, the newsagent wasn't open, but there was a van that came round and sold newspapers out of the back.
We used to see huge queues of cars parked at Braes, a few miles outside Portree, every Sunday. Turned out it was all the people who wanted to buy a Sunday newspaper, but didn't want their neighbours to know they were indulging in commercial transactions on the Sabbath.
I think it's better now, but then Skye was always a bit more advanced than the Outer Hebrides.
Mostly, in my experience, pdfs end up being smaller than the source docs they come from. Using the default options. Definitely true in my experience, too. I've just created a PDF of a 3.5 meg Word document, 61 pages long with text and screenshots, and it's come out at about 1.5 meg as a PDF using the standard settings in Acrobat 8. A folder of 36 short Word documents totalling 26 meg has converted to just over 7 meg in PDF form.
Those words [Luna, Sol, Terra] do not refer directly to the Earth, Sun, and Moon. Not true. While Luna was the Roman personification of the Moon, the word "luna" means simply "the Moon". Same for "sol", which means "the Sun" as well as being personification of the Sun, and "terra", which means "the Earth; the world" as well as ground, region, territory, and the personification of the Earth.
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Yes, the Vic had 5K of RAM in total, but only 3583 bytes of it were available in BASIC. It's incredible how we could get anything done in such tiny memory.
When I lived on the Isle of Skye in the early to mid 80s, nothing opened on a Sunday. If you wanted to buy a Sunday newspaper, the newsagent wasn't open, but there was a van that came round and sold newspapers out of the back. We used to see huge queues of cars parked at Braes, a few miles outside Portree, every Sunday. Turned out it was all the people who wanted to buy a Sunday newspaper, but didn't want their neighbours to know they were indulging in commercial transactions on the Sabbath. I think it's better now, but then Skye was always a bit more advanced than the Outer Hebrides.
"One side, such as Mercury or our own moon will always fact the body it orbits." Mercury isn't tidal-locked. We used to think it was, but it isn't.