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02-21-08, 10:26 AM
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Remember when everyone thought that all computers would come to a grinding halt on January 1, 2000?
yep, that was wierd
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playing met going outside
still does.
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Remember the 3 1/2 inch floppy and how we thought it was so great that we could fit 1.44M in our shirt pockets?
wow. Floppys. I remember those.
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Remember when gas was under a buck?
I can only remember it being like 85 cents. That was when 90 cents was HIGH!
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Remember when you would call a customer service line and you wouldn't have to go through 25 numeric menus
They did that? lol
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remember the dreaded "file not found" message in dos?
You still have doss box!?! Remember Commander Keen?
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02-22-08, 02:49 AM
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remember when someone told you you could use both sides of a 180 kb 5 1/4" floppy by punching a hole in the other side??
remember when a Z80 processor was state of the art????
remember where you were when neil armstrong took that "one giant leap...." ???
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03-25-08, 09:53 PM
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remember when teenagers could read and follow rules?
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03-25-08, 10:12 PM
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Remember when ADULTS could read and follow rules?
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03-25-08, 10:17 PM
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Remember the 3 1/2 inch floppy and how we thought it was so great that we could fit 1.44M in our shirt pockets?
Remember the 5.25 inch floppy? The REAL floppy?
:)
And to think I still have a new MSDOS "OS" on 5.25 floppies.....
And the original manual/box :)
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03-25-08, 10:39 PM
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Remember when Xenix (Unix) occupied 30+ of those floppies ?
03-26-08, 05:16 AM
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Do you remember when you needed to edit your config.sys and autoexec.bat files just to make games work without complaining that you had too little conventional memory(/EMS/XMS)?
..when it wasn't a choice between onboard sound and a sound card, but between the PC speaker and Soundblaster (or Adlib, or Roland, or whatever), if you had one?
..when CPU's didn't need any heatsinks or fans?
..when Windows was more of a frontend than an OS?
..when the Internet was (relatively) innocent and ad-free?
..when you saw a neat polygon-based flight simulator, and your friend said, 'Polygons will never catch on'?
..when you reduced the game screen size instead of disabling a bunch of 3D effects?
..when EGA looked like a vast improvement?
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03-26-08, 05:27 AM
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Yes, but I didn't do anything.. interesting.. on my 21st birthday.. at least not as some people perceive it.
03-26-08, 09:56 PM
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remember when more ppl posted in the, "Aximsite: the novel.." thread?
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03-28-08, 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by DavesPPC
Remember the 5.25 inch floppy? The REAL floppy?
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And to think I still have a new MSDOS "OS" on 5.25 floppies.....
And the original manual/box :)
yes i do and they were actually "mini" flopies. true floppy disks were 8"
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03-31-08, 09:15 AM
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Do you remember memory compression.. or when people used memory compression and disc compression at the same time?
03-31-08, 10:00 AM
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i remember an electronics drafting prog i used... orcad i think it was called.
ran it on a 640kb ibm xt 8 mHz . i used a ramdisk and coppied it all from the floppy to ram before running it... wonderful program..... wonder if i still have it somewhere.....ahh nostalgia.....
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03-31-08, 12:09 PM
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Do you remember when cell phones only made phone calls?
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and you carried them around in a bag? motorola anyone???
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I remember running Doom from a RAMdisk. It was still choppy and slow on my 386SX/25.
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