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To: fireman15
Computers and their technology have changed so much over the years. I worked part time at a Radio Shack back in the mid nineties, when home computers and cell phones were becoming popular. My, how times have changed.

An IBM computer with a one or two Gb drive was cutting edge, and cellphone service was $.60 a minute. I can’t imagine what we’re going to have available in another 20-30 years. I probably won’t be around to see it, lol.

64 posted on 09/19/2025 6:11:18 AM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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To: telescope115

Started in computers in the late 80s and our first work laptop was a Compaq about the size of a small suitcase that weighed as much as one filled with bricks. We used it to telnet into our network equipment.

We had computers that booted up with floppies and ecstatic when they cam out with 10 MB hard drives. Then you could create a memory partition on it and put the boot files on the HD and you were screaming.

I still remember installing Windows on computers using a stack of 30 floppies only to have the install crap out at the end.


65 posted on 09/19/2025 6:53:20 AM PDT by Mean Daddy
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