...I don't get it, ita. What's indecent about that? (it being a link from ita, I was expecting something...raunchy. And when it was a flash drive, I was like..."OK, am I missing something? Is this a...vibrating flash drive? A...taser flash drive?")
Plus bonus points for use of the word 'mosey'.
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meara - May 22, 2008 1:46:14 pm PDT #6327 of 25501
Sean K - May 22, 2008 1:50:16 pm PDT #6328 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
32 gigabyte flash drive for a hundred dollars. That's pretty jaw-dropping.
§ ita § - May 22, 2008 1:54:54 pm PDT #6329 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's a phenomenal amount of storage for the price, and for the size. I mean--that just goes in your pocket. How long ago was it that they were shipping laptops with that size hard drives? Not long enough.
meara - May 22, 2008 1:56:29 pm PDT #6330 of 25501
Heh. OK, everybody. Safe to click on that ita link there!
Ginger - May 22, 2008 2:05:00 pm PDT #6331 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Isn't this the point at which I talk about 256K machines and walking to school in the snow uphill both ways?
amych - May 22, 2008 2:08:41 pm PDT #6332 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
256? Such a luxury!
Sean K - May 22, 2008 2:14:26 pm PDT #6333 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Yeah, remember boggling at the 512k Macs. 512K!!!!!! Who could ever need that much computing??????
Yeah, I remember cassette drives, and even punch cards (though I never had to read or program with a punch card).
30 baud modems. 5" floppy drives. 8" floppy drives. Hard drives with plates the size of Miami. Commodore PETs. TRS-80s.
Hell, I remember being astounded by 16 colors.
vw bug - May 22, 2008 2:21:09 pm PDT #6334 of 25501
Mostly lurking...
5" floppy drives.
Hell, I still have a few of these. I think a couple of manuals I wrote are on them. Should probably see about getting those converted...
Ginger - May 22, 2008 2:33:37 pm PDT #6335 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Hell, I remember being astounded by 16 colors
You had color?
I think the most primitive thing I worked on, this side of a Royal Standard, was a typesetting machine with no screen and paper tape.
Connie Neil - May 22, 2008 2:35:10 pm PDT #6336 of 25501
brillig
Orange on black text-based monitors with a slight flicker. We had a corporate monitor-flinging party when we replaced hte last of those.