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AstronomerXI reacted to golfbravobravo's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with
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In the early 90s I ran a product center at the UK's indigenous computer manufacturer that developed surround products for our office... -
AstronomerXI reacted to artur9's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.
We used to have some big disks, literally the size of a washing machine. One held all the source code. It was unfathomably large, 200MB.
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AstronomerXI reacted to JanMc's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.
My first portable was the original Compaq, but at least it was an XT and had a 10MB HD. And at least Windows finally allows you to...
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AstronomerXI replied to the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up.I was issued the first Mac luggable as my work PC at the university in the early 90’s. I loved that little machine.
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AstronomerXI reacted to JanMc's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.
I worked for Atari back in the day and my first hard drive was 6mb and cost $3,000. I also had a commercial grade VHS recorder that...
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AstronomerXI reacted to quimbo's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.
My first 'portable' was the size of a sewing machine and had a 300 baud modem. Pager goes off in the middle of the night, set up the...
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AstronomerXI reacted to riffrafff's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.
Years ago, a company I worked for had an old IBM 10MB hard drive with removable platters. I started there in the '80s and it was OLD...
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AstronomerXI reacted to Barnstormer13's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.
Not much of a computer expert in any way, but I remember my first computer in 8th grade. Apple2+ with 64K RAM, 2 120K floppy drives and...
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AstronomerXI reacted to Orange5o's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.
Happy Tubesday to those who celebrate... This week it's 1986 Melz 1578 with a 1984 Svetlana Winged C 6AS7G
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AstronomerXI reacted to Paladin79's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.
That makes me think these came from him. I had $10k in hand before visiting him, his gear and tubes were first rate. Second splitter...
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AstronomerXI reacted to Ableza's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.
I remember in 1974 the big event at the bank where I worked was replacing three of the large tape drives with a 10Mb hard disk array...
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AstronomerXI reacted to golfbravobravo's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.
I worked for Tandy (Radio Shack) in the UK in the early 80s. We got the first 5MB winchester drives for the Model II TRS-80 and it was...
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AstronomerXI reacted to cricket's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.
The place I started working for in the early 80's used, and sold with the systems we made, PDP-11 computers. Boards for it were about...
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AstronomerXI reacted to sam6550a's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.
Thanks! I will try to stay out of that place----it's full of sick folks.
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AstronomerXI reacted to bcowen's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.
Lol! Remember those days too. The first hard drive I bought was IBM branded (made by Seagate I think). A whopping 10 MB (yes, as in M)...
