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Posted on 3/21/25 at 11:03 pm to LSU Patrick
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NOLA.com had a good chat room back around 2000.
I remember getting so much information from there after Hurricane Katrina. Didn’t know about TD yet.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 12:52 am to stout
Laptops were not common at all until at least the late ‘90s. When I went to work in the mid ‘90s my company only had one desktop PC. We had LAN terminals on everyone’s desk.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 5:43 am to stout
Went to project sites in mid 80's with Compaq's Portable (luggable) and major manufacturers thought we had a super secret estimating program. We only filled out spreadsheet forms with estimates for it to total them.
We had networked Compaq 286's when they first came out with a 5MB hard drive in the file server. Upgraded to a 20MB a year later. Much larger contractors still had mainframes with shared workstations. Dot Matrix printers of course.
We had networked Compaq 286's when they first came out with a 5MB hard drive in the file server. Upgraded to a 20MB a year later. Much larger contractors still had mainframes with shared workstations. Dot Matrix printers of course.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 5:47 am to Clark14
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My dad bought a hand held calculator when they first came out. All it did was add, subtract, multiply and divide. He paid $100.00 dollars for it.
I debated whether to a get a new slide rule or a calculator which could perform trig functions, ended up with one that could do square and square roots for $175 besides add, subtract, multiply and divide.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 7:39 am to CitizenK
Toted one of these around for a few years... (upgraded one floppy to an MFM hard drive, increased the weight by 5 lbs too!)
Posted on 3/22/25 at 7:56 am to deltaland
quote:I probably have pictures on my damn phone that take up that much space now. iPhone lets you take megaportrait mode pics now that take up a ton of space.
20 megabyte hard drive
Yikes
I don’t know which is more damning.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 8:02 am to Chad504boy
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space for a 3 and half inch floppy
3.5"? Some of us were rocking 8" floppies back in the day....
This post was edited on 3/22/25 at 8:03 am
Posted on 3/22/25 at 9:26 am to Lonnie Utah
1995 Compaq Presario. I rember a nerd saying it sucked which was probably the first time the kid ever talked shite in his life.
Firs time the house was empty I looked at tit pics on it and then freaked out because I didn't know how to get rid of the history.
Firs time the house was empty I looked at tit pics on it and then freaked out because I didn't know how to get rid of the history.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 9:37 am to stout
I remember wanting a laptop in 1993 that had standard 15 inch size except the screen was only 7 inch.
Or I could have saved by choosing black and white screen.
Or I could have saved by choosing black and white screen.
This post was edited on 3/23/25 at 8:09 am
Posted on 3/22/25 at 9:50 am to stout
I remember my dad getting a Toshiba laptop for work around 1990 or 1991 and it was north of $5,000. He would bring it home so my mom could use it to type her reports for college vs the old Brother typewriter we still had. Not much later we got a IBM-clone desktop PC, Windows 3.1, Intel 33Mhz, and an HP LaserJet printer. You young baws don't know anything about Corel and WordPerfect.. 
Posted on 3/22/25 at 1:34 pm to Chad504boy
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space for a 3 and half inch floppy.
Reminds me of the Lorena Bobbit virus that went around. It would turn your hard drive into a 3 and a half inch floppy. (Understanding this reference will separate the old guys from the wet-behind-the-ears boys.)
Posted on 3/22/25 at 1:52 pm to Shexter
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My parents paid over $2,000 for our first computer back in the mid-80's.
My dad bought an IBM PC Jr when they first came out. After he bought expansion kits to max memory and storage, the tab came to $3 thousand.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 1:56 pm to Crow Pie
I remember my parents paying over $1000 for a video chip for our Amiga so we could add video wipes to our home movies.
Video Toaster the thing was called.
Video Toaster the thing was called.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 3:12 pm to Napoleon
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Video Toaster the thing was called.
My brother worked for newtek during the heady days of the video toaster and got to hang with Kiki.
Iykyk
Posted on 3/23/25 at 11:28 am to DakIsNoLB
This must be $30K in computer purchases. The CD burner followed by the DVD burner was a game changer gen z will never understand.
Posted on 3/23/25 at 12:19 pm to stout
I got a packard bell computer for Christmas in 1993. So I could use it to get on Sierra’s Imagination Network and the regular internet.
It was the Wild West on there back then.
It was the Wild West on there back then.
Posted on 3/23/25 at 12:24 pm to Shexter
My computer science professor said there would never be color laptops
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