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Ah, those were the days.
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Your daughter had better be using that 8 gig for something useful. 8k should be enough for anybody!
Every now and then I regale her (and her sisters) with tales about life in the olden days, when if you wanted to change the channel on the TV, you had to get up and walk across the frickin' room! Now excuse me, I need to chase some pesky kids off my lawn.
When I was learning DOS on my dad's computer at work (IBM XT), I knew how to use the "cd" command to change into a directory. Unfortunately I didn't know how to get back out of a directory ("cd \") so I would restart the computer whenever I needed to get back to the root directory. Ah, those were the days.
This question makes me feel old. And I'm in my early twenties.
One of my friends who teaches 11-16 year-olds recently had to explain to one of her classes what camera film was, and how it was used.
Floppies!? Kids these days. My High School had an actual, physical computer, a Data General minicomputer. We used teletypes that printed on a continuous roll of cheap paper. The computer used removable media: 12" removable "Diablo" 5MB hard drive platters. One had four user basic on it, one had single user basic, and one was locked away with the software for grading students. Memory management was primitive: BASIC ra…
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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?
I still recall that the expensive accounting software for which my father purchased the computer required an ISA card to run it. Now that's anti-piracy!
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You had cards? We had to use a hammer and awl to punch the holes into vellum that we tanned ourselves.
I'll just leave this here :) http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1992-09-08/
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SD cards have a write-lock. It always amazes me that it's purely physical and only a suggestion to the software.
Gotta love how the write-lock switch is positioned just perfectly so that inserting it knocks the switch into read-only position.