Toys Ahead of Their Time (1979)

[Dibbons]

"Milton", "Big Trak", and "Microvision" (I was given "Simon" when hospitalized for a couple of months circa 1979).

 

[YY1]

I beat Simon in 1980 on the hardest setting.

IIRC it was a sequence of 256.

I remember that because I thought it was an odd number- not 250 but 256.

Of course 256 is a real easy "digital" number to end up with.

 

[Detective D]

I beat Simon in 1980 on the hardest setting.

IIRC it was a sequence of 256.

I remember that because I thought it was an odd number- not 250 but 256.

Of course 256 is a real easy "digital" number to end up with.

256 is the maximum amount of data points that can be stored in one byte, common in 8 bit programming. If you are limited to 8 bit, in binary code 255 is actually the max, but you count starting with "0" so you get 256 items. 255 would be max value represented by all "1's"