I remember when that was amazing. My first computer had a 20MB hard drive, 1MB ram, an external modem (14kbps, I think), dual 8" floppies, CD? what’s a CD, and it set me back eight grand.
My wife wrote her Master’s thesis on a Mac II-e. As I remember, it had 128 MB and used 5-1/2" floppies. Printed it on a dot-matrix printer with the guide holes in removable strips on the side of the continuous-feed paper. When I described it to my nephews they were horrified.
j_m_kuehl 11 months ago
56k modem? How old is this strip!
Mediatech 11 months ago
20th century technology. How quaint.
Hamady Sack Premium Member 11 months ago
Let’s talk software, Norm.
Skeptical Meg 11 months ago
I remember when that was amazing. My first computer had a 20MB hard drive, 1MB ram, an external modem (14kbps, I think), dual 8" floppies, CD? what’s a CD, and it set me back eight grand.
TSR1964 11 months ago
first run January 10th 2014. Basically 10 yrs old
sheilag 11 months ago
I didn’t have a Mac until a decade ago… I built my own machines before that (or later, modded refurb business-grade computers off lease).
24x CD-ROM? I was putting in the expensive DVD-ROM drive into machines by 1998, and pricing out DVD-RW, or DVD+RW depending on standard.
We had 640k DSL by then too, so 56K X2 modem (which I had, not the competing Flex) was unneeded. :-)
BeniHanna6 Premium Member 11 months ago
Well he is a poor Apple Drone.
Raging Moderate 11 months ago
Awfully big paper weight.
Corpse Horn Light Premium Member 11 months ago
Wow, I feel so… modern! I bought a new computer last September, and it’s got 64 GIG of ram, and two terabytes of hard disk space.
SERIOUSLY dates this strip!
news 11 months ago
I bought a strawberry iMac.
Free Radical 11 months ago
Its even got a CRT
eced52 11 months ago
4gig hard drive. Has to 1999.
artjohn42 11 months ago
My wife wrote her Master’s thesis on a Mac II-e. As I remember, it had 128 MB and used 5-1/2" floppies. Printed it on a dot-matrix printer with the guide holes in removable strips on the side of the continuous-feed paper. When I described it to my nephews they were horrified.