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Re: Age average
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Tue, 16 Nov 1999 20:24:15 GMT
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In lugnet.people, Eric Kingsley writes:
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> > > I also remember when if you asked someone if there would ever be a PC in
> > > your home they would have locked you up in a mental institution.
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> > Commodores, Amstrads, Spectrums and the like were available at the end of
> > 1970's (1979?), weren't they?
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> Yes and we had one of the first Apple II+ computers around 1978 or 1979 I
> think (not to clear as far as the date). We thought it was the best thing
> ever. It had 2 5-1/2 inch floppy drives and that was it.
We got our first computer in the early '80s and it was an Apple IIe, a
"portable" computer. I thought it was so cool! I only remember 3 games from
it, a Lord of the Rings game, Oregon Trail, and an early Sierra game called
"Mark's Tale" or something. You had to find King Mark's treasures in a troll
cave, but if one of the trolls was in the room, you couldn't pick it up. The
game had to draw one shape at a time, and I remember thinking how slow it was!
:)
Hmmm... Actually, that was our second computer. Our first was a Texas
Instruments device that hooked up to the TV and looked like an Atari. The only
game I remember from that one was "Hunt the Wumpus". I couldn't get enough of
that game! :)
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> About 2 years latter we upgraded it to have a 10 meg hard drive. I clearly
> remembering saying "How could you ever use up 10 Meg's!!" :). I also remember
> my father saying that it was very expensive like around $5,000 or more.
> Needless to say computers were not commonplace in homes until probably the
> late '80s or early '90s when hardware prices started to fall.
I remember when my dad got a 386 with a 120 Mb hard drive. All my friends
thought it was so cool, 'cause it was top of the line at the time!
> It is really facinating to think that we will be able to say things like this
> to our kids. Things like.
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> "I remember when we didn't have home computers"
I can't say that. Though I can say, "I remember when all the memory a
computer had was 640K!"
> "I remember when we didn't have cable TV"
Ah, yes. The days of having that annoying device that rotated the antenna!
How I hated the sound of that thing!
> "I remember when we didn't have a Microwave oven"
I certainly can't. :)
> "I remember when we used to read books made out of paper" :-)
Ya can't beat a good page turner! As opposed to a "page downer"! ;)
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> Just imagine the things our kids will be able to say to their kids...
"I remember when we had to use fossil fuels in our automobiles!"
"I remember when the fastest you could get to California was five hours!"
"I remember when you had to use a keyboard to input data into a computer!"
"I remember when they said nothing could go faster than light!"
:)
Jeff
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| (...) remember (...) . (...) I remember in the late 80s, when most folks had Apples or Comodore 64s, my buddy got an Atari computer (can't remember the model) that had 2 meg of RAM. We thought that was so huge. "You'll never need to store anything (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeff Stembel writes: <snip!> (...) By what must be an absolutely stunning coincidence, I actually read that (or something virtually indentical) in a book today. But then, that might be because I'm re-reading the Lensman (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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