[nimfan]

"Vector was late in moving from machines with 8K processing to 16K, which had become the new industry standard." I was interested in S100 bus machines, but couldn't afford one! If I'd only known, I'd have borrowed to buy a Vector Graphic S100 back then, just for the novelty of having an 8192-bit CPU! ;-)

[mkesper]

The CPU was a Z80, that must have been RAM. http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/Vector%20Grap...

[buescher]

No, it looks more like a misunderstanding. The Vector 3 was an 8-bit machine with 64K of RAM. https://web.archive.org/web/20110925031455/http://www.vector...

The arrival of the IBM PC (and PC-DOS/MS-DOS) in 1981 was an extinction-level event for the CP/M-based, mostly-Z80-based, 8-bit business microcomputer industry. Vector did not weather it.

[garius]

Yup.

Downside of how much tech has changed is stuff gets missed in a copy edit because the numbers sound so silly (to modern ears) they assume I haven't screwed up a typo or find/replace.

I'll flag it.

[grujicd]

It was a clear sign that author doesn't know a difference between 8-bit CPU and 8K of RAM and what kind of transition was happening at the time.