Comments | darqstar: Something to ponder.

darqstar

Something to ponder.

Apr 01, 2009 15:18

Remember when a hard drive of 4 meg was considered more than enough? Yeah, so do I. I also remember a time when my computer had a whoppin' 5meg of RAM and we thought we were kings! My husband could play DOOM without needing a special boot disc.

looking back

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sabrebabe April 1 2009, 20:46:59 UTC

Commadore 128D. Ultima IV. 12 5"floppy disks. >:D

darqstar April 2 2009, 01:36:50 UTC

Atari 126. External floppy drive to run programs. To save them, you used a regular cassette tape.

fatal_blue April 1 2009, 22:53:45 UTC

I was just thinking about this sort of thing the other day, when I realized my new laptop now has as more RAM than my first laptop had for the whole hard drive.

My first computer, though, was a Dell 486DX running at 50mhz. And I was convinced we'd never need to replace it, it was so blindingly fast. It could run everything! And it had that massive...20 MB hard drive or something else equally impressive.

I do kind of miss Windows 3.1, though.

darqstar April 2 2009, 01:38:23 UTC

I LOVED Windows 3.1. I tweaked that all the time to be exactly what I wanted.

Remember the pre-made color schemes? My favorite was "hot dog stand." Not that I used it, but I would sneak around in the office I worked at and change people's computers to that and watch them flip out.

frozencatnip April 1 2009, 23:28:21 UTC

Hee! I was thinking about this last month, when I found a bag of 1/4 MB SIMMs that I'd pulled out of a computer I upgraded. For a business. That was running a Paradox database on a computer with a whole whopping 2mb memory.

I actually kept the SIMMs to make a mobile out of when I replaced the motherboard. Unfortunately, they don't clink well.

I also remember my father upgrading to a 128mb hard drive, and my mother Shouting at him that it was absolutely ridiculous and a waste of money. No one would Ever need that much hard drive space.

darqstar April 2 2009, 01:40:00 UTC

I remember buying a gig hard drive for my husband for huge money, and the two of us staring at it, thinking, "OMG, it's SO HUGE! He'll NEVER be able to fill it!" We kidded that he could put every game he ever had, and every game he'd get in the future on that thing.

I bought him a teribyte harddrive for Christmas. He hasn't filled that yet.