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09-27-2006, 07:13 PM #16
Re: You grew up in the 90s if...
Ahh, my first 20Mb hard drive, 5 1/4 inch floppies, 640K ram.
My Renault 5
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09-27-2006, 07:14 PM #17
Re: You grew up in the 90s if...
Damn, that was a fast modem!
My first modem was a Zoom Telephonics Modem IIe. It ran at a whopping 110/300 baud. No, it wasn't an acoustic coupler, but it might as well have been. I remember when I got my Apple Cat modem with 212 card, I was in high-speed modem heaven. Then a friend of mine picked up an authentic Hayes 2400 baud modem for around $1,100 US and made us all jealous.
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09-27-2006, 07:17 PM #18
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09-27-2006, 07:26 PM #19
Re: You grew up in the 90s if...
LOL@Whiskey
I think we should make an early days of home computers thread to avoid any more massive hijacking.
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09-27-2006, 08:00 PM #20
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Diplomacy is the art of saying "good doggie" while looking for a bigger stick.
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09-27-2006, 08:11 PM #21
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I got my first 2400 modem with a Prodigy kit from Babbage's! Dialed up on the Commodore Colt (XT clone) with two low density 5 1/4" drives and no harddrive. 486 DX/2-66 after that.. Been downhill ever since..
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09-27-2006, 10:19 PM #22
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09-27-2006, 10:26 PM #23PaperchaseGuest
Re: You grew up in the 90s if...
Heh, Toys 'R' Us.
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09-28-2006, 12:58 AM #24
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I have an old tech magazine which I kept around just for one review. I think it is from 84 or so, with a review of an IBM XT machine with a 5 Megabyte Hard Drive! The reviewer goes on at great length about the significance of having that kind of storage available. Enough room to keep over 100 word processor files!
Now you can walk around with 16000 times that storage in your ipod.
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09-28-2006, 01:03 AM #25
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I think I has 128K of memory on my Apple IIe. I thought it was amazing when I moved up to 1MB on my Amiga (I think it was 1MB. Now that I type it i'm not so sure). When I got my first PC, a 486 DX2/66 I went all out and spent over $4,000 on a Compaq Proliant and upgraded it to 8MB of RAM with a 340MB hard drive. Less than a year later I bought an Adaptec AHA-1542 SCSI controller and picked up a full-height 5.25" Micropolis 1.7GB drive. I had more storage than all my friends machines combined. I almost had 2GB! Damn. I was cool.

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09-28-2006, 02:16 AM #26
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09-28-2006, 02:22 AM #27
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I had a fully functional 1991 Macintosh Classic II that I bought on ebay for $25. That thing is amazing and I can't believe that thing cost $1,900 USD in 1991....
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09-28-2006, 05:27 AM #28
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This is all a trip down memory lane. Rad racer, 4mb of massive ram storage :O.
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09-28-2006, 11:25 AM #29
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I met my wife on a Mac Classic. I told her it had FOUR MEGS of RAM.
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09-28-2006, 12:24 PM #30
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I remember gathering around a Mac that my friend's father had borrowed from work in about 1985. We were astounded by the resolution on the little screen and the things you could do with MacPaint! You could even save your drawings on a little square floppy disk!
They were portable! You could put your Mac in a soft bag shaped like a cube and bring it wherever you went!Peace through fear... since 1947!
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