Aggg! Infinite Loop!!!!!!

 

64K used to be alot of memory. Now that Win2K pig of a PC that I have at work will not even run unless it has 256MB. Software developers really have given up on code efficiency. Too bad.

 

Before there was photoshop, there was just plain old Printshop.

 

Bought a Digital Equipment Mini-computer for work in 1983. It was about $35,000 and had two hard drives. Each one was the size of a shoe box, weighed about 20 pounds and held (if I remember right) 32KB of data. Not MB, it was KB. Could have been slightly more, maybe 64KB. Also had removable floppies, the size of a large dinner plate, about 3 inches thick and held another 5KB. Total storage less than today's 3.5 in floppy.

 

My parents bought mybrother and I an "ADAM" computer that was basically a colecovision with a cassete drive that could do word processing and run Basic programs. It came with a daisy wheel printer the size of a condeminium that was really loud. When I would print out school work late at night it would go BAM BAM BAM!!!!!!!! and wake up my parents.

I later "upgraded" to an apple IIc. The most fun I had with that computer was dropping it down the garbage chute from the 30th floor of my apartment building.

 

I used to play Oregon Trail

 

Really? I remember in the 80's for the Apple computers you could buy hard drives (known as Winchester drives back then) and they came with a whopping capacity of 5MB or so.

32KB is far less than a single-sided 5 1/4" floppy could hold at that time.

 

I may be slightly off on the data storage figures but not by much. And the date was Dec 1983. When you say "at that time", I do not believe that 5 1/4 floppies existed at that time. We got updates using those platter sized floppies. Maybe they held 20KB (?). We used the system for years they might have improved it during that time. Wish I had kept the invoice to quote exact numbers.

 

Atari 400. learned how to pirate ROMS from my dad.

next box in the house was a Mac 512k, with external floppy and a 30MB hard drive.

various XTs

Once we got 386s, Ran a network in the house using Lantastic. Learned how to strip and crimp coax connectors in the basement.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the infocom text game. rad. Sierra games: kings quest, police quest, space quest, and last but not least leisure suit larry!

Who else hit the turbo button on their computer to slow it down enough to type "shoot alien" to kill that guy in the room of the ship towards the end of space quest 1?

Soundblaster 16. wow, that parrot talking is cool!

first cd-rom drive, along with The 7th Guest. Still a rad game.

 

For all I know, you are probably right. But I did have a couple of Apple II's in my high school in 1983 that had 5 1/4" drives. Can't exactly remember the capacity on those, but I am sure it was at least 64K per side.