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    I remember when a BIG Hard Drive was 40mb


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    Better still I remember when a complete, web browser included operating systems fitted on a 1.4mb floppy disk.

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    I can still remeber just how crap my Pentium 75 was with it's 8MB hard drive and it cost close to $3000

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    Word 1.1

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    $800 for 4mb of RAM

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    4 hundy for a 20 meg drive for an Amiga 500
    Quote Originally Posted by Mully
    The mind boggles.

    Unless you were pillioning the sheep - which is more innocent I suppose (but no less baffling)

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    I used to get very annoyed waiting for the tape drive to load my program on my amstrad only for it to come up with an error right at the end.
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    I'm gonna realy show my age here

    But I remember programming IBM System 360's with punch cards

    And carrying around diskpacs that looked like big stacks of vinyl records
    =mjc=
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    I remember when my first Playstation didn't have a wireless connection to the internet.




    Ok, I also remember 'load"*",8,1'

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kendog View Post
    I remember when my first Playstation didn't have a wireless connection to the internet.




    Ok, I also remember 'load"*",8,1'
    Ahhh the comodore 64... thems the days.
    Quote Originally Posted by Mully
    The mind boggles.

    Unless you were pillioning the sheep - which is more innocent I suppose (but no less baffling)

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    Quote Originally Posted by jim.cox View Post
    I'm gonna realy show my age here

    But I remember programming IBM System 360's with punch cards

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    Ahh, FORTRAN and punch cards, what a way to make a living...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kendog View Post
    I remember when my first Playstation didn't have a wireless connection to the internet.
    Well said that man, very funny! I still dont have wireless internet

    Quote Originally Posted by Ronin View Post
    Ahhh the comodore 64... thems the days.
    Fuck you are really old BASIC now there was a language. How many wasted hours of my life attempting to write binary code to make a friggen cursor move left, then down and right
    Quote Originally Posted by Gubb View Post
    Nonono,

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mom View Post
    Well said that man, very funny! I still dont have wireless internet



    Fuck you are really old BASIC now there was a language. How many wasted hours of my life attempting to write binary code to make a friggen cursor move left, then down and right
    Shit, it had 4 times the memory of the TSR 80 I started on. Nice wood panelling though.
    Quote Originally Posted by Mully
    The mind boggles.

    Unless you were pillioning the sheep - which is more innocent I suppose (but no less baffling)

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    Quote Originally Posted by jim.cox View Post
    I'm gonna realy show my age here

    But I remember programming IBM System 360's with punch cards

    And carrying around diskpacs that looked like big stacks of vinyl records
    Snap!
    Time to ride

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ronin View Post
    Shit, it had 4 times the memory of the TSR 80 I started on. Nice wood panelling though.
    I am really laughing now, I was going to comment on the wood grain exterior.
    Quote Originally Posted by Gubb View Post
    Nonono,

    He rides the Leprachhaun at the end of the Rainbow. Usually goes by the name Anne McMommus

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