{"id":5,"date":"2015-08-11T00:37:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T00:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldcodetricks.wordpress.com\/?page_id=1"},"modified":"2015-08-11T00:37:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T00:37:19","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/oldcodetricks\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the days of servers with gigabytes of memory, terabytes of storage, and gigabit transfer rates being common it is sometimes hard to imagine computing with limited resources.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know a 1K Z80 computer could play chess?<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine 1K storing a simple computer font, a handful of lines of text message, and 68000 code to scroll these smoothly up the screen like credits?<\/p>\n<p>Would you believe a stock ZX Spectrum could be coaxed into producing 3-channel sound from a simple 1-bit beeper?<\/p>\n<p>Do you know why Sinclair ZX BASIC programmers referred to PI so much in their code?<\/p>\n<p>This blog remembers and explores some of these ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the days of servers with gigabytes of memory, terabytes of storage, and gigabit transfer rates being common it is sometimes hard to imagine computing with limited resources. Did you know a 1K Z80 computer could play chess? Can you imagine 1K storing a simple computer font, a handful of lines of text message, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/oldcodetricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/oldcodetricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/oldcodetricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/oldcodetricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/oldcodetricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/oldcodetricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/oldcodetricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}