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| Qwoin |
on Fri 23 Dec 11, 7:31 AM to Qwoin's blog.
Next time you pop your 16GIG usb stick into the side of your puter remember things were not always this easy.
http://www.howtogeek.com/100985/5-mb-hard-drive-...
| 23 Dec 11, 8:21 AM SirOpenSource UK(E), 6 yrs     |
Reminds me of the days I changed the 500mb hard drive in my Dell with a pentium 1 and fat16 to a 1Gb drive. I was king of the hill. SCS The Titter_Ye_Not group - for when you don't feel too serious. | |
| 23 Dec 11, 9:49 AM Lj_switch UK, 3 yrs   |
as it's nostalgia time, my first PC ran at an incredible "turbo" speed of 10MHz, had a massive 20Mbyte hard-drive and two 5" floppy disc drives. And it booted up faster than the current 2GHz dual processor job that I have now! be a switch, double your fun | |
| 23 Dec 11, 10:12 AM Top_Class UK(GU), 2 yrs |
My God, you it had lucky ... I had to put up with a 5 MHZ 8085 "Business PC" with 64 KB of RAM and booted from 5.25" floppies (each of which was capable of storing 128 Kilobytes of data). When was this? 1983, the year IBM first shipped PCs with internal hard-drives. Up till then PCs with floppy drives were normal - ever since their launch in 1981. 2011 has been the 30th anniversary of the PC in its recognisable form-factor of a midi-tower/desktop metal box with a monitor sat on top.
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| 23 Dec 11, 10:14 AM Mr_Smith_UK UK(BL), 3 yrs £ |
5mb, 5mb! surely 640k was enough for anyone :p www.Bdsmandfetishmentor.co.uk Pro dom/me & Training / Mentoring services available. Either come to us or can travel to you with discretion assured. | |
| 23 Dec 11, 10:36 AM IrrepressibleSoul UK(OX), 24 mths |
Consoles should not be forgotten...(as I look at my phone with dual 1.2 Mhz processors...really?!?) ahh - the ZX81....now we were cooking - we had moved beyond Pong 1 K of power......but.......to play space invaders, it took a 16k plug in(a ruddy great transformer like plug in the bag) POWER! Goddamn it Amazon!!...how am I supposed to buy Xmas prezzies when you keep wanting me to press a "SUBMIT" button!?! | |
| 23 Dec 11, 10:39 AM TheSilverFox UK(GU), 2 yrs   |
I remember the best word processor of all time. Loco script for my Amsterdam pcw512. Yes! I had the 512k version!!!! Let's all play nicely people.. Just remember.. This is meant to be fun! | |
| 23 Dec 11, 11:37 AM MisstressvsSolicedog UK(NN), 17 mths |
We had it Tough,, our computor was a hole in the road and calculation's where made by Father beating us with a bat with nail's in, ! Please excuse crap spelling cause i,m rubbish | |
| 23 Dec 11, 11:58 AM Mr_Smith_UK UK(BL), 3 yrs £ |
so your a Mac man then :p www.Bdsmandfetishmentor.co.uk Pro dom/me & Training / Mentoring services available. Either come to us or can travel to you with discretion assured. | |
| 23 Dec 11, 12:09 PM epona74 UK(SL), 7 yrs |
I learned to program in Logo at school in the States in 84/85 on Apple Macintoshes. We learned to make the little white dot write our names and we learned to program a basic version of Pong!  For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) | |
| 23 Dec 11, 5:28 PM Qwoin UK(S), 10 yrs |
640K??? I started with a ZX81 with 1k of memory and that included the video memory. Mind it was possible to produce space invaders in machine code.
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