when 1.2Gb was big
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that was the size of the hard drive my first PC had. It eventually got to be too small so I had to keep backing stuff up onto CDs, which I went through at the weekend and sorted out. Its amazing how much crap I collected. Old Windows 95 apps, sound clips from films and TV shows, cheesy clipart... Why did I ever think this stuff would come in useful. If I had a better memory I would remember more.
I also started on floppies but my first hard drive was a whopping 20 megabytes! The whole street was envious of the endless space I had. And we did not have CDs in those days to back up onto. On no, we backed up onto floppies. 20 stiffies for Doom if I remember correctly. All those damned WAD files. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Chris Maunder wrote: "I'd rather cover myself in honey and lie on an ant's nest than commit myself to it publicly." Jon Sagara replied: "I think we've all been in that situation before." Crikey! ain't life grand?
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bleeeEEEEE-DEEEEEE-uurrrrrrr-eeeeEEEEE Ahhhh- the sounds of a cassette tape loading. :-D I remember starting to load a program onto my TRS-80, and later Atari-400 leaving the room for a snack or whatever, and coming back 5-10 minutes later hoping it loaded without error. BW The Biggest Loser
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No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun"brianwelsch wrote: bleeeEEEEE-DEEEEEE-uurrrrrrr-eeeeEEEEE Yep! This describes it better than anything else. ... I still prefer the "EEEEE-DEEEEEE" part ;)
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really ?? my one was equiped with a 5'1/4 floppy disk.... :) that's quite nice nowadays...
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Mine had 1Kb of memory and could be plugged into a cassette tape drive :) Am I showing my age? ;)
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really ?? my one was equiped with a 5'1/4 floppy disk.... :) that's quite nice nowadays...
TOXCCT >>> GEII power
Ok, I hate to one-up everyone here but I had dual 8" :)
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You intend to say, that you collected lots of floppies and then wonder why you did that, right ;P
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bleeeEEEEE-DEEEEEE-uurrrrrrr-eeeeEEEEE Ahhhh- the sounds of a cassette tape loading. :-D I remember starting to load a program onto my TRS-80, and later Atari-400 leaving the room for a snack or whatever, and coming back 5-10 minutes later hoping it loaded without error. BW The Biggest Loser
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No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun" -
my first computer was some sticks with beads. we thought we had it made. if we wanted graphics, we would shake it in front of our eyes. Josef Wainz Software Developer
Turtle Hand wrote: if we wanted graphics, we would shake it in front of our eyes. LOL :)
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I also started on floppies but my first hard drive was a whopping 20 megabytes! The whole street was envious of the endless space I had. And we did not have CDs in those days to back up onto. On no, we backed up onto floppies. 20 stiffies for Doom if I remember correctly. All those damned WAD files. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Chris Maunder wrote: "I'd rather cover myself in honey and lie on an ant's nest than commit myself to it publicly." Jon Sagara replied: "I think we've all been in that situation before." Crikey! ain't life grand?
Paul Watson wrote: And we did not have CDs in those days to back up onto. On no, we backed up onto floppies. 20 stiffies for Doom if I remember correctly. All those damned WAD files. :) Not to forget the 18th disk always having a little 'problem' and the obligatory "let's hope norton utilities helps" solution ...
We are men. We are different. We have only one word for soap. We do not own candles. We have never seen anything of any value in a craft shop. We do not own magazines full of photographs of celebrities with their clothes on. - Steve
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Paul Watson wrote: And we did not have CDs in those days to back up onto. On no, we backed up onto floppies. 20 stiffies for Doom if I remember correctly. All those damned WAD files. :) Not to forget the 18th disk always having a little 'problem' and the obligatory "let's hope norton utilities helps" solution ...
We are men. We are different. We have only one word for soap. We do not own candles. We have never seen anything of any value in a craft shop. We do not own magazines full of photographs of celebrities with their clothes on. - Steve
:laugh: Exactly! Scandisk it to death, then hope Norton works and finally trudge back to your mates house with another 20 disks which you hope work this time. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Chris Maunder wrote: "I'd rather cover myself in honey and lie on an ant's nest than commit myself to it publicly." Jon Sagara replied: "I think we've all been in that situation before." Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Mine had 1Kb of memory and could be plugged into a cassette tape drive :) Am I showing my age? ;)
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog Photography:laugh: Mine had 1 kB of RAM, too, but it stored long term data on paper tape. Of course, to do that much I had to design and build the interface card to talk to the tape punch...:-O I eventually upgraded it to have 16 kB of RAM, though - plenty for any practical use.;) Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
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You intend to say, that you collected lots of floppies and then wonder why you did that, right ;P
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:laugh: Mine had 1 kB of RAM, too, but it stored long term data on paper tape. Of course, to do that much I had to design and build the interface card to talk to the tape punch...:-O I eventually upgraded it to have 16 kB of RAM, though - plenty for any practical use.;) Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
Phew, I was hoping you'd come to my rescue! :-O
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that was the size of the hard drive my first PC had. It eventually got to be too small so I had to keep backing stuff up onto CDs, which I went through at the weekend and sorted out. Its amazing how much crap I collected. Old Windows 95 apps, sound clips from films and TV shows, cheesy clipart... Why did I ever think this stuff would come in useful. If I had a better memory I would remember more.
Although many here have already one-upped me.. my first machine had one 5-1/4 floppy and a 30-meg harddrive. MS-DOS 3.3, CGA video card (could get a whopping 320x200 graphics mode with 4 colors!) Anyone remember the anomaly known as 1.2 meg floppies? They were 5-1/4 size, but could store 1.2 meg instead of the standard 360K. Of course, when 1.44 meg 3-1/2's came out not much later (or maybe around the same time??) 5-1/4's started disappearing. "Fish and guests stink in three days." - Benjamin Franlkin
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Ok, I hate to one-up everyone here but I had dual 8" :)
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Ray Cassick wrote: Ok, I hate to one-up everyone here but I had dual 8" Didn't you know the doctors could help with that particular problem...? ;P Anna :rose: Homepage | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work. Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Visual C++ Add-In
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Suzanne Boyle wrote: that was the size of the hard drive my first PC had. Lucky, my first computer came with a cassette tape recorder to store programs on ;) Love live the Commodore VIC-20, 3.5K RAM, who would need more? :) Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com
Rocky Moore wrote: Lucky, my first computer came with a cassette tape recorder to store programs on Lucky, my first computer, a ZX81[^], had to be connected to an external cassette tape recorder to store programs on :-D
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Phew, I was hoping you'd come to my rescue! :-O
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog Photography:laugh::laugh::laugh: Anytime, Meg... You're just a pup, compared to me.;) Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
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Mine had 1Kb of memory and could be plugged into a cassette tape drive :) Am I showing my age? ;)
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Suzanne Boyle wrote: that was the size of the hard drive my first PC had. Lucky, my first computer came with a cassette tape recorder to store programs on ;) Love live the Commodore VIC-20, 3.5K RAM, who would need more? :) Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com
I did, which is why I held out for the C64. My 64K of RAM beats your 3.5K! ;P
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:laugh::laugh::laugh: Anytime, Meg... You're just a pup, compared to me.;) Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
Roger Wright wrote: Anytime, Meg... You're just a pup, compared to me With a birthday looming, I feel these words strangely comforting :sigh:
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that was the size of the hard drive my first PC had. It eventually got to be too small so I had to keep backing stuff up onto CDs, which I went through at the weekend and sorted out. Its amazing how much crap I collected. Old Windows 95 apps, sound clips from films and TV shows, cheesy clipart... Why did I ever think this stuff would come in useful. If I had a better memory I would remember more.
Holy smokes. My first PC had a 20 MB HDD, 2 MB RAM, 720 KB Floppy. Crap that was a looooooong time ago.
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