Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for March 12, 2020

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    hariseldon59  over 4 years ago

    Anyone know whose picture is on the wall in the second panel?

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    jimmeh  over 4 years ago

    I used to buy IBM computers for a government agency. PS2’s with a whopping 1MB hard drive. Of course you didn’t need much with DOS 3.0 as your OS.

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    PoodleGroomer  over 4 years ago

    4 bays of floppy drive when you could hack and rule the world with 5.6 Mb of disk space. Do you suppose he only had 640k of ram or did he have 1 Mb of ram and high memory management software?

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    lopaka  over 4 years ago

    Today’s strip is definitely dated by the crt and keyboard.

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    johnec  over 4 years ago

    He was only that way with IBM computers. Once he got that Banana Jr system, it was the only one he ever used again. It even showed up in the Reboot.

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    hariseldon59  over 4 years ago

    Is this before the Banana Jr?

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    oompa  over 4 years ago

    Sad thing is, he just bought that computer last week!

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    Kevin Parker Premium Member over 4 years ago

    My wife quotes this strip whenever I mention wanting to upgrade any of my electronics.

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    claudia.sawyer  over 4 years ago

    In 1984 I had an IBM PC. Also got hired to be a programmer for USAF.

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    Sisyphos  over 4 years ago

    Oliver Wendell Jones is on board with Bill the Cat, or OWJ’s teddy bear is (for both, see panel 1).

    Delighted to see him pitch that old fashioned computer and assorted peripherals. Progress was exponentially rapid. Not sure if “tint control” is great progress, however….

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