So, when can I replace my textbooks?

[starfall2]

In planning my upcoming lessons, I decided to look through my textbooks some more.  Here are a few lovely quotes from a chapter of the drafting book entitled "The CADD Workstation."

"A typical microcomputer has a cycle rating of 25 to 66 MHZ."Keep in mind that you're probably reading this on a computer running at at least 2 GHz or so.  That's 2000

Comments

[irianamistifi]

Oh, I laughed so hard at this... Thanks. Lol. We actually have some of those paper 8" floppies in my house. Maybe you'll want to borrow some as a museum-type demonstration for your new-fangled students??? ^_^

[pinkfroginachai]

Heh. Thanks, I needed a good laugh.
Once textbooks read a certain out-of-date-ness, they become joke books! Two uses in one!

[blackrosebard]

My first computer, in the house, was a TRS-80 model 2.

My first computer, owned, was a TRS-100 laptop. I wound up upgrading it to a full 32 KB memory, and even had a tape drive for it...

[beppo_astrid]

Hmmm, that's about what Donovan's stats seem to be some days...

(Actually, I lie. I bought him a bunch more RAM a couple weeks ago, and now he actually behaves like a real computer, which rather amazed me the first time I tried him.)

[anonymous]

It had 32 mb of of ram. We paid extra for that. The 5.25 disk drive cost $500 alone and even read double sided disks, unlike the apple IIe that read one side at a time. "Please remove and flip the disk."