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10striker01

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« on: 26 March 2002, 12:13 »
anybody here remember the old days?
cradle modem adapters
monochrome monitors
wang
apple 11c
2400bps modems
100meg hard drives
edo ram
5 1/4 floppies
laptops that weighed 40-50 lbs
DOS 5.1
Windows 3.11
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« Reply #1 on: 26 March 2002, 12:33 »
I'll give you the cradle modem adapters but most of the other stuff you list are not the old days, in fact fairly recent if you ask me. Hell I have most of that stuff lying around the house, and much earlier/slower/smaller versions.  

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« Reply #2 on: 26 March 2002, 12:39 »
you have wang disks laying around?
ok

comidore 64
vic 20
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« Reply #3 on: 26 March 2002, 12:57 »
I've got a couple of C64's and a VIC20 with cassette drives, and a 300 baud modem.  A few 10/20MB hard cards.  I've got some 8 inch floppy disks from Mainframe controllers, and piles of punch cards.  I know I have a copy of DOS 2.0 and I believe I have a copy of 1.x somewhere. Windows 1.0/2.0/3.x. But I'm pretty new to computers compared to people I have worked with who have been in it for *much* longer.  They talk about how they used to program mainframes by patching wires.
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« Reply #4 on: 26 March 2002, 17:24 »
I had a computer teacher back and highschool. She was a total dinosaur, she had actualy used and operated one of the vacume tube set ups from the day's of the EDSAC!!!! That, was impressive. Man she had stories. Probably the coolest class I took in HS. The rest was an excersise in alianation.
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« Reply #5 on: 26 March 2002, 20:38 »
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Originally posted by striker:
anybody here remember the old days?
cradle modem adapters
monochrome monitors
wang
apple 11c
2400bps modems
100meg hard drives
edo ram
5 1/4 floppies
laptops that weighed 40-50 lbs
DOS 5.1
Windows 3.11
Lotus123
WordPerfect4

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"damn it, this reads like stereo instructions.  Im not installing this crap."


Nope first touched a computer in 96
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« Reply #6 on: 27 March 2002, 03:03 »
you shold have been around for the old days

anybody remember hacking from a payphone (tape deck
hi operator i need you to dial this number i have operator privilages)
cradle modems and hyperdata 310 black and white laptops  moving at a blazing 800bps if your lucky tone dialers
green screen monitors
reel to reel storage
520k floppys
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