Oh no!

[51st_century]

Guys

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[serendipitygirl]

*noddles*
T'other day at work, we found a pile of lotus stuff in stacks...on big 5" floppy disks. The date was from like 1986. I've been battling the urge to dress like a babooshka since then. :)

[51st_century]

Wow, you should save them as like... museum pieces or something.

Isn't it scary that there's a whole batch of computer users now, who if you showed them one, they'd go "what"?

[strollerman]

I've got worse. We found in our server room a stack of 3" inch floppies for Office. 45 disks.

[hystericblue42]

Hi, Grandpa, call me Grandma. I remember all these things too, 'cause I'm a bit older than you.

[51st_century]

Lol, I know there's plenty of people older than I am... but damn, nothin like 'computer years' to make you feel old, right?

[quinn_merrick]

Yeah....I remember *Prodigy* when it looked like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Prodigy_Sign_In_Screen.png

[51st_century]

OMG SO DO I!

[strollerman]

My first computer was an Apple IIe, well the first one I was allowed to touch. My dad's was an IBM 8086, and an early Tandy. My follow-up computer was a Tandy 1000RLX boasting 33MHz processing speed, 512KB of RAM, no HDD and one 3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive. It ran on DOS 5.0 and it's own DeskMate OS.

My modem? 1200 baud. Text-based AOL. Text-based!

I'm a bigger grandpa. I remember having to dial in to bulletin boards before there was a concept of a publicly available world wide web. Back before browsers. Back when a 5MB hard drive was really really really big, and double-sided floppies meant that you could fill both sides by removing and flipping over the disc.

[strollerman]

Way back when modems required placing the receiver on a coupling in order to dial out.