Yeah I remember my first Apple II with 16k of memory and a floppy disk that could hold 120k. The first hard drive I purchased was a 5 MB drive.
Yeah, we're building a race of frog-people. It's a good time
Xander ,'Selfless'
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NoiseDesign - Aug 15, 2007 5:16:33 pm PDT #2403 of 25496
Our wings are not tired
amych - Aug 15, 2007 5:17:22 pm PDT #2404 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
It comes in megabytes?
NoiseDesign - Aug 15, 2007 5:18:54 pm PDT #2405 of 25496
Our wings are not tired
Oh yeah baby! Come check out my acoustic coupler modem.
Theodosia - Aug 15, 2007 5:31:28 pm PDT #2406 of 25496
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
My first personally owned hard disk was an immense 20 megs!
Gris - Aug 15, 2007 5:39:23 pm PDT #2407 of 25496
Hey. New board.
I remember my Apple II and the fire that destroyed it. The one after that was.... some sort of PC running DOS. Mostly, I played Lemmings on it. Then we got a Pentium 90, several years later, with Windows 3.11. I installed Windows '95 on it myself, which was a nightmare, but it looked SO COOL when I finished. I was like "Check it out, it's got clouds!" I learned qbasic on that computer. At the time, I thought I was hot stuff for being able to easily change the background. But something about Windows 95 tempted me to more powerful computer whizziness, and 3 years later i had my own Linux/BeOS box. So... yeah.
DebetEsse - Aug 15, 2007 5:52:10 pm PDT #2408 of 25496
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Mmm...Lemmings. Loved that game. Not that I was that good at it.
Juliebird - Aug 15, 2007 7:39:03 pm PDT #2409 of 25496
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Juliebird, did you fix your itunes problems?
le nubian, no, I haven't had a chance yet. Went out of town for a few days. I got as far as backing up the associated files, but when I went to uninstall, I discovered a new twist: apparently I am not the administrater of this laptop, even though I totally am, and there are no other profiles on this computer, and profile settings says I totally am, and also I installed iTunes, so why the heck can't I uninstall it? F*cking Geeksquad... shouldn't have let them "set up" my new and already broken toy... *grumblegrumble*
Gris - Aug 15, 2007 7:52:36 pm PDT #2410 of 25496
Hey. New board.
Jessica - Aug 16, 2007 1:52:46 am PDT #2411 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
LEMMINGS!
Good times, man, good times.
Slow, but good.
Gudanov - Aug 16, 2007 6:32:34 am PDT #2412 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
My first computer had 16k of memory, a cassette drive, and membrane keyboard. I was in middle school at the time so I mostly used it for playing and writing games.