The Norm Classics by Michael Jantze for January 08, 2024

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    j_m_kuehl  10 months ago

    56k modem? How old is this strip!

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    Mediatech  10 months ago

    20th century technology. How quaint.

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    Hamady Sack Premium Member 10 months ago

    Let’s talk software, Norm.

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    Skeptical Meg  10 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.

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    TSR1964  10 months ago

    first run January 10th 2014. Basically 10 yrs old

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    sheilag  10 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. :-)

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    BeniHanna6 Premium Member 10 months ago

    Well he is a poor Apple Drone.

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    Raging Moderate  10 months ago

    Awfully big paper weight.

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    Corpse Horn Light Premium Member 10 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!

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    news  10 months ago

    I bought a strawberry iMac.

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    Free Radical  10 months ago

    Its even got a CRT

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    eced52  10 months ago

    4gig hard drive. Has to 1999.

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    artjohn42  10 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.

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