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| (...) But that was a long time ago :-) Nowadays we *do* have an awful lot of disk space, and don't really have to squeeze the files. OTOH, every 'unnecessary' byte to read will take time, again and again while rendering, unless the rendering program (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Was it a digital switch or an analog? (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) You were lucky! We didn't even have skin! All we had was twine to try and keep our entrails in! And they would leak out all over, and parents would beat us to death each night for mussing up the floor! JOHN (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) Rocks! Wow you must have been one of the rich kids that I heard about when growing up. We would have killed to have rocks for doing our computations. Our parents would hit us with a switch and use our backsides for doing their fancy adding and (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) My third computer had two floppy disk drives holding 113.75KB of data each. This was in 1979. Each drive cost $600. (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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