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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.

Ginger - May 22, 2008 2:36:30 pm PDT #6337 of 25501

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Green on black.

Connie Neil - May 22, 2008 2:39:08 pm PDT #6338 of 25501

brillig

Also of the devil.

Sean K - May 22, 2008 2:39:37 pm PDT #6339 of 25501

You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I remember both orange on black and green on black. I was just saying how astounded I was at the first 16 color computers.

omnis_audis - May 22, 2008 2:40:15 pm PDT #6340 of 25501

omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

I almost bought it. Soooo tempting. Damn you poverty!! 32 GIG! Holy cow!

Jessica - May 22, 2008 2:50:16 pm PDT #6341 of 25501

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

We were evicted from our hole in the ground, and had to go live in a lake...

amych - May 22, 2008 3:10:25 pm PDT #6342 of 25501

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Oh, yeah? How much RAM did your lake have?

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