The theme this week is old meeting the new. There is a new craze now where people create new operating systems for old computers; they call it Home-Brew Booters. Somone even made an operating system for the commodore 64. They called that computer the commodore 64 because it had 64 killobytes of running memory(Ram, Random Access Memory). When I scan some of my pen sketches, they use 1.5 megabytes (1500 killobytes). It is amazing to think about it. One of my sketches wouldn't fit on the running memory of an 80s computer, you would need about 25 of them to each render a small part of my drawings that appear on this blog. In fact it is common now for smart phone pictures to take up more than 5 megabytes, but the 80s computers were working with killobytes of data for their entire memory. We are all walking around with super computers in our pockets. Anyway, I thought it was cool to see a commadore 64 booting an operating system with a build date of 2022.
Now we are having a royal state funeral and coronation of a king that would be seen by millions of people around the world. In the ancient times it would just be a small crowd of people. But now millions of people around the planet were watching it. The internet is allowing people to see things that were hidden away.
A lot of music is today is a cover of an old song and people don't realize it because those songs were written many decades ago. Old movies are also being recreated using modern special effects as well.
