Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today
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(1) It's 1987
(2) Lots of hair
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@ben_lubar doesn't exist
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@El_Heffe said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
Lots of hair
Untrue! It just ... shifted!
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I didn't exist.
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I was 2.
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@El_Heffe said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
Lots of hair
There is a lot more hair today than 30 years ago.
...at least human hair. Not sure how animal hair has evolved.
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Osama Bin Laden and those Afghan freedom fighters are a smashing bunch of lads.
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My wife didn't exist. Also she wasn't my wife.
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Ska-punk is the music of the future.
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@Luhmann said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@El_Heffe said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
Lots of hair
Untrue! It just ... shifted!
Yes. Now it's all in my ears and nose.
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512kB is a lot of RAM and take multiple floppy disks to store
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@wharrgarbl said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
512kB is a lot of RAM and take multiple floppy disks to store
The thing is, the floppy disk icon used for saving files these days also wouldn't make sense 30 years ago.
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@ben_lubar said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@wharrgarbl said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
512kB is a lot of RAM and take multiple floppy disks to store
The thing is, the floppy disk icon used for saving files these days also wouldn't make sense 30 years ago.
???
Both 5 1/4 inch and 3 1/2 inch floppies existed in 1987.
The IBM PS/2 came out in 1987 and was the first PC to ship with a 3 1/2 inch floppy drive. Macs had them before that.
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@El_Heffe said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@ben_lubar said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@wharrgarbl said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
512kB is a lot of RAM and take multiple floppy disks to store
The thing is, the floppy disk icon used for saving files these days also wouldn't make sense 30 years ago.
???
Both 5 1/4 inch and 3 1/2 inch floppies existed in 1987.
The IBM PS/2 came out in 1987 and was the first PC to ship with a 3 1/2 inch floppy drive. Macs had them before that.
If 3 1/2 inch floppies existed and @wharrgarbl couldn't fit 512kB of data on less than "multiple" of them...
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@ben_lubar said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@El_Heffe said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@ben_lubar said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@wharrgarbl said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
512kB is a lot of RAM and take multiple floppy disks to store
The thing is, the floppy disk icon used for saving files these days also wouldn't make sense 30 years ago.
???
Both 5 1/4 inch and 3 1/2 inch floppies existed in 1987.
The IBM PS/2 came out in 1987 and was the first PC to ship with a 3 1/2 inch floppy drive. Macs had them before that.
If 3 1/2 inch floppies existed and @wharrgarbl couldn't fit 512kB of data on less than "multiple" of them...
He didn't say they were 3 1/2. Could have been 5 1/4 single sided -- only 160kb per disk.
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@ben_lubar said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
If 3 1/2 inch floppies existed and @wharrgarbl couldn't fit 512kB of data on less than "multiple" of them...
They existed, but DOS PCs at the time, as I remember it, tended to have two 5¼″ DSDD drives (that’s 360 KB per disk) and with a bit of luck, a hard drive; if you had a higher-end system, you probably had 5¼″ HD drives instead (1.2 MB per disk). 3½″ drives (DD, so 720 KB per disk) were only just beginning to appear on PCs around that time.
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Amigos had 3 1/2" floppy disks that could hold 880KB at the time.
Also, congrats, this is now actually unusable on iPad in either portrait or landscape.
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My soul hadn't been formatted into a compatible state for installation.
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@Luhmann said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@El_Heffe said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
Lots of hair
Untrue! It just ... shifted!
To my face!
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You can get excellent skyline photos from the top of the WTC.
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@Lorne-Kates too soon!
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@masonwheeler said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@Lorne-Kates too soon!
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I'm three and I can't pronounce rolling "r" for another 6 months or so.
It's Soviet Union and it's going through quite interesting times.
We don't have a phone at home. And we won't for another 10 years.
Speaking of telephone, if you want to call someone in a distant city, you need to go to telegraph and order your conversation, then wait for an hour or two, then pay handsomely.
Fuck those times.
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640k was enough for everyone.
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@lorne-kates said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@masonwheeler said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@Lorne-Kates too soon!
http://i.imgur.com/uCbje4L.png
Filed under: twin towers are like genders...
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@anonymous234 said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
twin towers are like genders...
There's 7 of them until some terrorists blow them up? :/
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@lorne-kates There used to be 2, but now it's a touchy subject.
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@lorne-kates said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@anonymous234 said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
twin towers are like genders...
There's 7 of them until some terrorists blow them up? :/
I forget which comedian talked about this, but they had a couple of ideas of what to build on the old WTC site. One idea was a mosque, but the funnier idea was to build an airport
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@raceprouk said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@lorne-kates said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@anonymous234 said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
twin towers are like genders...
There's 7 of them until some terrorists blow them up? :/
I forget which comedian talked about this, but they had a couple of ideas of what to build on the old WTC site. One idea was a mosque, but the funnier idea was to build an airport
That's what you're gonna get and it's actually kinda cool.
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@captain said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
64
0k was enough for everyone.FTFY
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@wharrgarbl eh, the Amiga 500 was introduced in 1987 with 880KB on a floppy disk, and 512K RAM as standard, extensible to 9MB (though most people only did 1MB)
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@arantor said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
extensible to 9MB
That's an odd number.
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@raceprouk not as odd as the previous machine being extensible to 8.5MB.
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@arantor importing computers is illegal because the government wants our industry to make our own. So I got this MSX that pass customs because it looks like a videogame.
I can't even dream of something like you describe, life in UK must be some kind of futuristic technology utopia. I'm glad I don't have the internet yet to see that and feel bad for how backwards things are here.
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@arantor That I can understand: 512kB standard on the board, with a slot (or slots) for up to 8MB.
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@raceprouk except the A1000 shipped with 256KB on the board.
There are two kinds of RAM for Amigas, so called Chip and Fast RAM. The former is addressable by all the custom chips (like the video processor) and the latter is not, only the CPU.
So the weird numbers reflect different amounts of both.
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@wharrgarbl I was 4 in 1987, I didn't see an Amiga until the future of 1990.
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@wharrgarbl said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
importing computers is illegal because the government wants our industry to make our own.
Is it working?
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@antiquarian at the time I was a 8 year old and wasn't even aware of that stupidity happening
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Delete...nevermind, I misunderstood the title.
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@gurth said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
DOS PCs at the time, as I remember it, tended to have two 5¼″ DSDD drives (that’s 360 KB per disk) and with a
bit of lucklot of money, a hard driveFTFY
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@timebandit said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
@gurth said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
DOS PCs at the time, as I remember it, tended to have two 5¼″ DSDD drives (that’s 360 KB per disk) and with a
bit of lucklot of money, a hard driveFTFY
The post I replied to was talking about 1987. Hard drives weren’t that expensive anymore then — our 8086 PC of around that time had a 20-MB one.
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@gurth said in Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today:
The post I replied to was talking about 1987. Hard drives weren’t that expensive anymore then — our 8086 PC of around that time had a 20-MB one.
I owned a PC store at that time. Average PC price (with 2 floppy disk) was around $750. Average 20MB HD setup was around $250.
~1/3 of a PC price was expensive. You could probably buy 2 weeks worth of grocery for a family of 4
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@timebandit A PC-type computer was expensive then, period — well, compared to nowadays, anyway. My point is that the price of hard drives had come down far enough by that time that it was viable to have one in your home PC if you had the money for a computer in the first place.
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Re: Re: Re: Bigly list of things that were true 30 years ago, but not today
The existing forum is crap but everything will be better when we switch over to the new forum
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@cark We had a forum 30 years ago?
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@raceprouk
Youngsters never used BBS
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@luhmann My first Internet experiences were on Windows XP