Anybody up for a random meme dump?
- Thread starter Bofa-Deez
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Ha Ha! I've still got a copy of Windows286, a very early version that ran as a DOS extension!
Had a bunch of those.
My ex-father in law had about 500 wax cylinder records and the player.
That was some cool stuff. Unfortunately, his daughter stold and squandered all his cool shit when he died.
My mom let me have her old portable suitcase computer when hers got upgraded. Dual 5-1/4 floppy drives, no HDD.
I still have this, cpm86 op system on one floppy and wordstar on the other.
Tiny screen like a smartphone. Sub-optimal but ground breaking then, unacceptable now. At least it had a decent keyboard!
I had an original Macintosh in college. It had a new-fangled 3.5" 400KB floppy. A short time later, they came out with the double-sided drive, so capacity went to 800KB, and I upgraded. I still got sick of swapping between the OS disc, the program disc (MS Word, for example), and my data disc constantly. Keep in mind, the OS disc and program disc were purchased items that were write-protected discs. I eventually bought a second external drive and learned to put the OS disc in one drive and the program disc in the other, and I un-write-protected one of them to store (temporarily) the data file on - no more swapping discs! I never did have a computer with a hard drive until the mid-90s...
Yeah, the young-ins don't know how technology has improved. Don't even get me started on what a pain it was to type reports back before computers!