Re: [cobalt-users] (OT) Posting to the list In General

["Robert Dayton" <pudgybuddha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, the 8088. Those WERE the days. I miss the way we had to think to program
on them. I miss it bad.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] (OT) Posting to the list In General


> When I was in college in 1988 I had an 8088 that was the workhorse for
> the entire floor, because it was faster than the library's computers
> (now if that ain't sad) with its little 9-pin printer. Everything was
> in DOS and I even had WordPerfect on there - LOVED that program back
> then. It had a 200MB hdd that I had compressed 400MB of data onto and
> it still ran like a charm.
>
> I still remember seeing a 3.5" disk for the first time and thinking it
> was so small, hard, and UGLY - and the guy who had them (in
> multicolors, no less) kept calling them "hard disks" and I kept
> arguing "No, the 'hard disk' is what's in your computer, not your
> pocket!"
> When he switched to calling them "floppies" I got even more flustered
> and said "A 5.25 is a floppy! How can you call that thing a floppy??
> It doesn't bend!"
> Even more frustrating was the fact that you couldn't record data on
> both sides - what a waste! If it could hold 1.4 MB, then using both
> sides it could hold nearly 3! So why didn't it do that?!?  *grin*
>
> Fast forward to December of '96, when I saw an autoresponder at work
> for the first time and thought it was the coolest thing since sliced
> bread - I was at the Wizards of the Coast website, looking for updated
> tourney rules for Magic the Gathering - got them all by autoresponder
> and was so fascinated with it that I spent the next hour sending
> emails to every autoresponder WotC had set up just to see what I'd get
> back! Pretty sad.
>
> Walking through the computer shows comparing prices on 72-pin SIMMS
> and thinking they were SO expensive; the thought of a 2gig hard drive
> made me drool... 2gigs!! Wow - I'd *never* fill that up!! LOL
>
> My MIL talks of how she used to feed the punch-cards to the computers
> where she worked, huge things that took up the entire room. I thought
> that was pretty ancient, until I mentioned in chat one day how my 8088
> still worked great and a 22-yr old friend from Canada was astounded -
> they had pictures of those in his high-school textbooks(!!) and he
> thought *that* was a dinosaur.
>
> CarrieB
>
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