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Itās what we used to call a TRaSh-80. 386K for all your computing needs. And a tape drive that usually finished loading shortly after you came back from workā¦ā¦Ah, how far weāve come. Now weāre lucky if we came home and Win7 hasnāt crashed.
those were the days. data stored on tape drives, modems that went at 128 bits/sec, 5 1/4" floppies, 3 1/2" floppies. hdd that had 1 Megabyte of storage, 64 colors. pc speaker sound, no mouse. no gui interface(all command line). 64k of memory. and, crt monitors that weigh over 200 pounds for a 15". no f1-f12 keys. laptops were built like luggage that one would use to emigrate to a foreign land.
To all my friends at The New Adventures of Queen Victoria, may I be the first to say:>Athbhliain faoi mhaise dhaoibh !>Gott Nytt Ć r !>Felice Anno Nuovo !.>ĪĻ ĻĻ ĻĪ¹ĻĪ¼ĪĪ½Īæ ĻĪæ ĪĪĪæ ĪĻĪæĻ !>HAPPY NEW YEAR !
Linguist about 12 years ago
Ah, Markās not so badā¦ once you get to know him !
Kali39 about 12 years ago
Itās what we used to call a TRaSh-80. 386K for all your computing needs. And a tape drive that usually finished loading shortly after you came back from workā¦ā¦Ah, how far weāve come. Now weāre lucky if we came home and Win7 hasnāt crashed.
vwdualnomand about 12 years ago
those were the days. data stored on tape drives, modems that went at 128 bits/sec, 5 1/4" floppies, 3 1/2" floppies. hdd that had 1 Megabyte of storage, 64 colors. pc speaker sound, no mouse. no gui interface(all command line). 64k of memory. and, crt monitors that weigh over 200 pounds for a 15". no f1-f12 keys. laptops were built like luggage that one would use to emigrate to a foreign land.
Kali39 about 12 years ago
I had a joystick. Kapow! Zing!
Spooky D Cat about 12 years ago
Typed my dissertation on a TRS80 model III using Superscripset and a Tandy daisy wheel printer. Those were the days.
Linguist about 12 years ago
To all my friends at The New Adventures of Queen Victoria, may I be the first to say:>Athbhliain faoi mhaise dhaoibh !>Gott Nytt Ć r !>Felice Anno Nuovo !.>ĪĻ ĻĻ ĻĪ¹ĻĪ¼ĪĪ½Īæ ĻĪæ ĪĪĪæ ĪĻĪæĻ !>HAPPY NEW YEAR !
Sherlock Watson about 12 years ago
This is taking āfriendingā to a disturbing new level.
prrdh about 12 years ago
Well, he was in the process of adopting a Russian kid, but that fell through, so, like, any port in a stormā¦
Kali39 about 12 years ago
As I recall, it burned coal, but it didnāt catch fire too much. :-)