I'm turning 30 in April and sometimes I feel like an old dog. Nevertheless, the article made my day, I can't stop laughing over it and the comments, esp. the Penny Arcade link in this thread. Cheers =)
For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?
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#42Never, this would happen again that one technology/company would have such huge effect.
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#43In 20 years people won't understand CDs either, or why people would carry around plastic as big as 3 iPods to play 12 songs.
In 20 years, people won't understand iPods, or why you would have to physically carry around data anyway.
How would they play music when jogging or in the train then?
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#44Who else remembers using the square punch to put a hole in those 3 1/2" AOL disks to reformat them as HD?
Yep, or vice versa, put a bit of tape over the hole to make disks writable that weren't intended to be. Good times!
USB drives could use such a feature.
write-lock: prevent it from beint written (and acquiring viruses)
read-lock: prevent it from being read (and passing viruses), only showing the free space and being able to write only in the free space
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#45This question makes me feel old. And I'm in my early twenties.
Same here and I'm not much older than you. Worse, my current computer has an A:\ drive. I don't know why I keep a 3.5" floppy drive around, exactly, because I haven't actually put a floppy in there in years, but I do have one. And that's nothing compared to the 8088 that's collecting dust. It has two floppy drives, a 10 MB (yes, MB, not GB) hard drive, a CGA card & monitor, a math coprocessor and as much RAM as it ca…
That's pretty high end for an 8088! Is it a PC or PC-XT?
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#46Who else remembers using the square punch to put a hole in those 3 1/2" AOL disks to reformat them as HD?
I used a soldering iron. The holes were round, but with a utility knife to cut the extra plastic, it looked very good.
Thanks, AOL!
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#47Re: For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?
#48This question makes me feel old. And I'm in my early twenties.
Same here and I'm not much older than you. Worse, my current computer has an A:\ drive. I don't know why I keep a 3.5" floppy drive around, exactly, because I haven't actually put a floppy in there in years, but I do have one. And that's nothing compared to the 8088 that's collecting dust. It has two floppy drives, a 10 MB (yes, MB, not GB) hard drive, a CGA card & monitor, a math coprocessor and as much RAM as it ca…
> I haven't actually put a floppy in there in years
I have one computer (a Sun workstation) with a 3.5 drive that no longer works. The fun part is I cannot tell you in what year it broke.
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#49 Heh heh, this is hilarious .. Aniquity is a technological effect I'll never quite get used to ..
Which is why I'm waiting with baited breath for the release of this thing:
http://retromaster.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/cumulus-firmware...
So I can really have something cool about computers to teach my 3-year old in a decade or so! :)
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
In 20 years, people won't understand iPods, or why you would have to physically carry around data anyway.
How would they play music when jogging or in the train then?
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect ubiquitous wireless connectivity of one kind or another, and cloud storage. As for what form the device might take, who knows? It would have been pretty hard to predict smartphones in 1990; I expect further consolidation of devices, but have no idea what they'll look like.