I remember...
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Yeah... Being 32 years old my first computer was a C64. From a future historians perspective you had Tesla patenting logic gates and 60 years later everything went *BAM*. What happened here? I don't know. Was it aliens?
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0bx wrote:
Yeah... Being 32 years old my first computer was a C64.
Mine was too (SX64 specifically), and I'm 40% older.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
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...when 1 GB was a phenomenally huge amount of disk space (my first hard disk was 20MB!) Now Windows gives me a red "running low on disk space bar" and I still have 3GB left!!! :omg: Marc
Yup. the first one I remember was the big foot drive. It didn't fit in a 5.25 drive bay so it was mounted on top on clone power supplies.
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0bx wrote:
Yeah... Being 32 years old my first computer was a C64.
Mine was too (SX64 specifically), and I'm 40% older.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
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I keep it on, although I don't use the search much. I mainly use the search to look for files I know I have but inadvertently saved in or moved to a different folder. Half of the time recent files stuff doesn't work as it should (I don't know why. I get random 'File Not Found' errors, even if the file exists.)
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. - Mitchell Kapor
I lost my trust in the Windows searches a very long time ago. Total Commander is much more accurate, and in my opinion more usable as well.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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...when 1 GB was a phenomenally huge amount of disk space (my first hard disk was 20MB!) Now Windows gives me a red "running low on disk space bar" and I still have 3GB left!!! :omg: Marc
Of course, you were lucky. I've still got an NT4 workstation sitting on a shelf which has much less of everything than my phone. They both work, but one is so old it's a joke and is utterly useless unless you want to cruise through a VS 1997 build. Incidentally, it has VB5. Almost the same as VB6, which still sells for hundreds. :confused:
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...when 1 GB was a phenomenally huge amount of disk space (my first hard disk was 20MB!) Now Windows gives me a red "running low on disk space bar" and I still have 3GB left!!! :omg: Marc
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I lost my trust in the Windows searches a very long time ago. Total Commander is much more accurate, and in my opinion more usable as well.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
I use Everything search, since it bypasses Windows entirely and just reads the drive header. :-D Only for NTFS drives though, but it can filter hundreds of thousands of filenames as you type without any pausing, from my experience. Freeware, too.
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My first hard drive was the second floppy. Twin floppy system on an RM380Z. Then a 20MB IBM. Today we are running a huge server with >lots TB and cloud backup, offsite data and drop box for data transfer. I still pine for the mid 80's when Joe Public had no access to our systems and we were grand wizards. How I would rule the roost on my AS400 when I worked in the The City.
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
Oh the Research machines 380Z. Gosh that brings bsck good memories.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote:
That was caused by the search index
Bleah. One of the first things I do when installing Windows is turn off search indexing. I know where my files are. Marc
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I saw for the very first time a PC booting from an hard disk at University. I thought it was a miracle.
Veni, vidi, vici.
My first job was using a hybrid computer. The main part was a EAI 680 analogue computer with 3 foot square detachable patch panels. An EAI 640 digital computer was used to control this. It ran via cassette operating system (COS) and the cassettes were very similar to 8 track audio tapes. This latter was replaced soon after I joined by an EAI Pacer which used 5Kb disks the size of vinyl LPs although it still had to be bootstrapped via the “octal” switches on the front. For simulation work analogue ruled in those days.
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My first job was using a hybrid computer. The main part was a EAI 680 analogue computer with 3 foot square detachable patch panels. An EAI 640 digital computer was used to control this. It ran via cassette operating system (COS) and the cassettes were very similar to 8 track audio tapes. This latter was replaced soon after I joined by an EAI Pacer which used 5Kb disks the size of vinyl LPs although it still had to be bootstrapped via the “octal” switches on the front. For simulation work analogue ruled in those days.
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...when 1 GB was a phenomenally huge amount of disk space (my first hard disk was 20MB!) Now Windows gives me a red "running low on disk space bar" and I still have 3GB left!!! :omg: Marc
top tip: use sequoia view [^] to find out where the bloat is. Takes a while, but it's worth it.
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...when 1 GB was a phenomenally huge amount of disk space (my first hard disk was 20MB!) Now Windows gives me a red "running low on disk space bar" and I still have 3GB left!!! :omg: Marc
The first hard drive I purchased on my own was a 340MB Western Digital drive, for which I paid over $600. It was happily installed in a 386SX, 16 MHz machine with a whopping 1MB of RAM. I've got data structures bigger than that now.
Software Zen:
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...when 1 GB was a phenomenally huge amount of disk space (my first hard disk was 20MB!) Now Windows gives me a red "running low on disk space bar" and I still have 3GB left!!! :omg: Marc
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...when 1 GB was a phenomenally huge amount of disk space (my first hard disk was 20MB!) Now Windows gives me a red "running low on disk space bar" and I still have 3GB left!!! :omg: Marc
Engineer 1 : I remember when all we had was a big time-sharing machine with only text-based terminals as an interface. Engineer 2 : Text-based terminals?!? You had text-based terminals? I remember when our only interface was punch cards. Engineer 1 : Punch cards?!? You had punch cards? I remember when all we had was paper tape. Engineer 2 : Paper tape?!? You had paper tape? I remember when we hand to hand assemble code with toggle switches on the front panel of the machine. Engineer 1 : Toggle switches?!? You had toggle switches? I remember when we had to wire-wrap all of the 0's and 1's? Engineer 2 : 1's?!? You had 1's?...
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Engineer 1 : I remember when all we had was a big time-sharing machine with only text-based terminals as an interface. Engineer 2 : Text-based terminals?!? You had text-based terminals? I remember when our only interface was punch cards. Engineer 1 : Punch cards?!? You had punch cards? I remember when all we had was paper tape. Engineer 2 : Paper tape?!? You had paper tape? I remember when we hand to hand assemble code with toggle switches on the front panel of the machine. Engineer 1 : Toggle switches?!? You had toggle switches? I remember when we had to wire-wrap all of the 0's and 1's? Engineer 2 : 1's?!? You had 1's?...
... one of the first computers I used was PDP-11 with twin 5Mb drives. To boot it you had to manually load the bootstrap program, about a dozen instructions, using the front panel toggle switches. Not sure how much memory that had (probably 64k bytes = 32k words) but the very first computer I programmed was a PDP-8 with 4096 12-bit words of memory (i.e. 6kb). It supported 5 simultaneous users on teletypes but had no disk storage at all!
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Engineer 1 : I remember when all we had was a big time-sharing machine with only text-based terminals as an interface. Engineer 2 : Text-based terminals?!? You had text-based terminals? I remember when our only interface was punch cards. Engineer 1 : Punch cards?!? You had punch cards? I remember when all we had was paper tape. Engineer 2 : Paper tape?!? You had paper tape? I remember when we hand to hand assemble code with toggle switches on the front panel of the machine. Engineer 1 : Toggle switches?!? You had toggle switches? I remember when we had to wire-wrap all of the 0's and 1's? Engineer 2 : 1's?!? You had 1's?...
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Gus Gustafson
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...when 1 GB was a phenomenally huge amount of disk space (my first hard disk was 20MB!) Now Windows gives me a red "running low on disk space bar" and I still have 3GB left!!! :omg: Marc
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I use Everything search, since it bypasses Windows entirely and just reads the drive header. :-D Only for NTFS drives though, but it can filter hundreds of thousands of filenames as you type without any pausing, from my experience. Freeware, too.
Windows Search is turned off immediately after installation :) Glad someone else is using Everything because I find it awesome. It's quick, reliable, has a small footprint, I can't say enough praise for it :) Fell in love on the first search, good times.
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And I bet there was some paperfriggingtape nearby as well... :sigh:
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I remember 5 bit paper tape and even worked on printing perforators and tape readers - wonderful noisy mechanical/digital machines. My first computer was a VIC 20 with cassette tape. My first PC was an Amstrad 10MB hard disk and the world was my mollusc. Heady times!
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