penguwin - https://chaos.social/@penguwin just managed to make me feel *incredibly* old.We were talking about computing history, and I realized that he never used DOS or floppy disks in his life. When he was born, these things simply weren't a thing anymore.Like 馃懘 talking to a 馃懚!
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fribbledom - https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom penguwin - https://chaos.social/@penguwin Time moves swiftly ahead of us.
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fribbledom - https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom penguwin - https://chaos.social/@penguwin I know what you mean. I was trying to explain 8 inch floppies to a youngster not long ago. Also describing the wire wrapped motherboard in the graphics generator the floppies were used in!
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fribbledom - https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom penguwin - https://chaos.social/@penguwin I used floppy disks... I've always had one in my purse with my data and projects, just the way today I have a memory stick 馃ぃ 馃ぃ 馃ぃ
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fribbledom - https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom penguwin - https://chaos.social/@penguwin This will help. I'll bet a dollar you can hear in your head exactly what this image depicts ;Phttps://oona.windytan.com/posters/dialup-final.png - https://oona.windytan.com/posters/dialup-final.png
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@dissy614@mastodon.social - https://mastodon.social/@[email protected] Haha, indeed I can!penguwin - https://chaos.social/@penguwin
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fribbledom - https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom@[email protected] have the source code of my first FORTRAN program --- on punch cards.does that count for feeling old?
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fribbledom - https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom I never had to use DOS either. In fact, I grew up with XP and didn't know Windows ME or Windows 98. After Vista was released I started wonder whether XP had a predecessor now that XP has became one.
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fribbledom - https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom penguwin - https://chaos.social/@penguwin I started out on 5.25" floppies and a 20Mb harddisk in an XT (i8088) at 8Mhz. CGA and a 2k4 modem. Some time 1984-1986 ..
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fribbledom - https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom penguwin - https://chaos.social/@penguwin ha! Working in public administration, i still use floppy's quite often. It's not just a question of age, but also of circumstance 馃槀
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fribbledom - https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom penguwin - https://chaos.social/@penguwin seeing a weird piece of plastic cartridge while at a thrift shop and asking my mum what it is."i don't know" she says- then i figure it's really old. then i find my dad and ask him; he says it's an eight-track. i'd only heard of them and never seen one until then.
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fribbledom - https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom@penguwin - https://chaos.social/@penguwinA friend of mine is a teacher at a high school. She told her students that when she was a kid it cost 0.2 dollars to send SMS. A student replied 'wow, I think I'd use whatsapp instead'
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fribbledom - https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom penguwin - https://chaos.social/@penguwin This was me too. Although I have used floppy disks cause I had a REALLY old laptop that used them.
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fribbledom - https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom penguwin - https://chaos.social/@penguwin Fascinating. I did some BIOS updates around the year 2000 by booting from floppy disks, as DOS/Windows based tools were still experimental.
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