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WCDT: 25-29 October 2010 (1781-1785)
raoullefere:
I remember the Mac Plus being touted as "capable of holding 1 full megabyte of RAM—all anyone would ever need." And I have a flash drive that holds 8 gb; in size and cost, it make my old Rodime 40 mb hard drive seem both gargantuan and hideously expensive.
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--- Quote from: raoullefere on 29 Oct 2010, 05:20 ---
When Hannelore foolishly stuffs Pintsize with too much RAM, Marten strikes Pintsize a good un' the back of the head, and the teeny terror spits the ramstick out. Where the RAM be, there be ye motherboard, me hearties! Although we be assumin' the wee monster's other ram be soldered on.
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Not really contesting the location of the motherboard any longer, but since when did everything exiting thru the mouth necessarily originate from the head. Under ideal conditions may be, but...
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You'd have to whack the body, or at least hit Pintsize from a different angle to get that chip we see to bounce up that teeny neck—if, indeed, it's possible. I mean, stuffing cake batter down that little hole is one thing; getting a chip on a rigid circuit-board to pop up that easily, another. On the other hand, if the RAM is in the head, Marten's blow would be about right to jar it loose and bounce it out.
Edit: the more I think about it, the more I wonder how Pintsize does get the batter down or even eat in the first place. I probably need to consign that to 'it's just a comic," though.
mickcheese:
--- Quote from: Dliessmgg on 29 Oct 2010, 17:26 ---You make it sound like drama is a bad thing.
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It's not a bad thing. I couldn't read this comic at all if I thought that drama was a bad thing.
That being said, this is primarily a comedic comic. And even though a lot of the humor is derived from the drama there is such a thing as too much drama. Marigold is consistently a source of drama and rarely a source of comedy. Many of the other characters are just as dramatic as her, but they also provide far more laughs than she does (at least IMO).
--- Quote from: AnAverageWriter on 29 Oct 2010, 21:15 ---I don't see why. Marigold is sweet, intelligent, has helped others on occasion, and we haven't seen enough of Raven at all to make a judgment. I've never understood the Marigold hate on this forum from some people.
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It's not hate, at least not from me. But I do prefer other characters, such as Raven, to her. And I wouldn't mind at all if she were put on a long bus trip to Allosaurus Town.
That sounded mean.
Maybe I do hate her just a little.
AnAverageWriter:
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 29 Oct 2010, 23:05 ---I remember the Mac Plus being touted as "capable of holding 1 full megabyte of RAM—all anyone would ever need." And I have a flash drive that holds 8 gb; in size and cost, it make my old Rodime 40 mb hard drive seem both gargantuan and hideously expensive.
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I remember that awesome old thing. My first new PC was a Mac Plus! I can still remember when I upgraded its storage to a "massive" Apple HD20 and 4MB of SIMM RAM.
And it cost almost 3 grand, STOCK.
But oh, how I loved it.
Dliessmgg:
--- Quote from: mickcheese on 30 Oct 2010, 00:16 ---That being said, this is primarily a comedic comic. And even though a lot of the humor is derived from the drama there is such a thing as too much drama. Marigold is consistently a source of drama and rarely a source of comedy. Many of the other characters are just as dramatic as her, but they also provide far more laughs than she does (at least IMO).
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I don't think she brings less comedy, it's just a different sort of comedy. The other characters most funny to me when they're self-aware. Marigold (and Dale, maybe?) is not self-aware and funny because of that.
bhtooefr:
Of course, you all are assuming that the CPU and RAM reside on the motherboard.
Back in ye olde days of personal computing, the motherboard was a backplane. All it had was a bunch of slots. Then, one of the cards for that slot was the bus master (controlling all of the other slots,) and had your CPU. It might have also had RAM, and if you were really lucky, it also had I/O other than the slot interface.
I think Pintsize's body is a backplane, and his head like a card with a CPU, RAM, and minimal I/O. Note that it can be attached to the body in any position: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=465
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