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To: 12th_Monkey
5 1/4 floppy’s and a dot matrix printer...vintage

Naw, 8 inch floppies and an ASR33 Teletype is vintage.

22 posted on 01/16/2014 7:20:27 AM PST by GingisK
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To: GingisK; 12th_Monkey
Naw, 8 inch floppies and an ASR33 Teletype is vintage.

That must make paper tape and punch cards downright prehistoric... ;)

30 posted on 01/16/2014 7:48:59 AM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (People should not be afraid of the government. Government should be afraid of the people)
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To: GingisK

Oh I remember the 8 inch floppy. I wish I had a few of those just to look at.

Those were the days, when memory was in K’s and disk storage was in the megs and cpu speeds were in the kilohertz.


39 posted on 01/16/2014 8:25:34 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (In an alternate universe Obama still dips ice cream)
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