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(DIR) Post #AbXyuj9HUXnNZKiae0 by stux@mstdn.social
2023-11-07T00:57:53Z
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This just blew my mind :blobcatgiggle: My respect for the modern tech I use just went up a level
(DIR) Post #AbXzPtMBaW4wCpcAzI by IntentionallyBLANK@universeodon.com
2023-11-07T01:02:10Z
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@stux Small floppy 👀 Wild how much information we can store in tiny things now.
(DIR) Post #AbXzWEazXGR3oYZ37w by anguinea@mstdn.social
2023-11-07T01:04:20Z
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@stux What year would this have been?
(DIR) Post #AbY3r7QnlctvUb0oG8 by WolfIsMe@mstdn.social
2023-11-07T01:52:44Z
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@stux Wow. How we take our journey so much for granted.
(DIR) Post #AbY8IAxj98pg4yZOd6 by JustTooOdd@lor.sh
2023-11-07T02:42:17Z
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@stux I remember those days.
(DIR) Post #AbYCJmbr3muAwjMS92 by mikej@mastodon.online
2023-11-07T03:28:32Z
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@stux Witchcraft!
(DIR) Post #AbYKbZVZJCYn9uPjQe by tip@mastodon.online
2023-11-07T05:00:36Z
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@stuxThis is what it looked like when I started as a computer operator in 1985. These machines ran a whole bank even with so little storage
(DIR) Post #AbYVZTyU0irGug92wK by coyoty@mstdn.social
2023-11-07T07:04:18Z
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@stux I recommend the British TV show "Look Around You", which is a satire of these types of shows.
(DIR) Post #AbYXCfyPQuhTNIMZsG by hembrow@todon.eu
2023-11-07T07:22:27Z
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@stux I used hard disks much like that in my first job in the mid 80s. They made very satisfying mechanical clunk noises and stored a huge 100Mb or so...
(DIR) Post #AbYXi3OCQI0yyWO8bg by arosano@hachyderm.io
2023-11-07T07:28:13Z
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@stux For me a trip down memory lane ;) I worked with all those technologies. Back in the day, the boot sequence of an IBM 360 mainframe was on an 8 inch floppy. Mind boggling.
(DIR) Post #AbYY3Au1gSG4MILXRw by s1fly@mstdn.social
2023-11-07T07:32:03Z
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@stux I remember the excitement around laserdiscs. A few years later after that programme we had a BBC Master at school connected to a laserdisc player with the Britannica Encyclopaedia - around about 1990. An amazing time!
(DIR) Post #AbYYbjfEwolQ10uUQS by VastBee@mastodon.online
2023-11-07T07:38:09Z
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@stux @IngridHbn Been there, done that. 😜🤓 And above all: that’s not so long ago.
(DIR) Post #AbYn85pHU5FdNGvj72 by cstross@wandering.shop
2023-11-07T10:20:50Z
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@stux Feeling old now because I lived through that era as a (young) computer user ...
(DIR) Post #AbYuJQ9SxCmBHGihns by jinxd@fosstodon.org
2023-11-07T11:41:10Z
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@stux Recall a storage array we had late 90s, EMC, ..it was a 1TB capacity (500g mirrored)...it was the size of 2 full sized server racks about and the cost was just insane.
(DIR) Post #AbYv9IrHJciFiRx6aO by mansr@society.oftrolls.com
2023-11-07T11:51:00Z
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@anguinea @stux Some time after the space shuttle first flew in 1981 but before the introduction of 3½" floppies. This puts it in the early/mid 1980s.
(DIR) Post #AbZ0SVV12ZlQC5W28u by OldAintDead@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-11-07T12:49:23Z
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@stux I did love that 64K Commodore a lot.
(DIR) Post #AbZ2R0QhGs7pS4uKMS by UKFilmNerd@mastodon.me.uk
2023-11-07T13:12:18Z
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@stux Fast forward around a decade later and I dreamed of owning a 50mb hard drive for my Atari ST. Salty it was out of my reach at around £350 but I dreamt of the disk swapping I could say goodbye to. Sigh.
(DIR) Post #AbZ3MVnJKXTVEZuE3U by Whiskeyomega@cupoftea.social
2023-11-07T13:20:53Z
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@stux BBC Micro's were the bane of my childhood at school. Used to static shock me every time you turn the monitor on.The "video disc" became Laserdisc and didnt take off as by the time it got to market it was too expensive and VHS was most prominent option beating out Betamax and the lesser known Philips C-Max in the UK VCD/SVCDs never took off either.
(DIR) Post #AbZ3WGzHElWkCt9pCa by IngridHbn@mastodon.online
2023-11-07T07:39:03Z
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@VastBee @stux It sure looks like ages ago lol
(DIR) Post #AbZ3Wfmj2ZLF7CTebo by VastBee@mastodon.online
2023-11-07T07:58:57Z
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@IngridHbn @stux One has those days on which you feel very old… 🤓😜
(DIR) Post #AbZ3WkAcjepoiTgnPk by stux@mstdn.social
2023-11-07T13:22:35Z
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@VastBee @IngridHbn I feel very young now :blobcatgiggle: just peeking around the IT corner
(DIR) Post #AbZ3WwCU0ZS61ieRyi by Daniel_Pagenstecher@mastodon.social
2023-11-07T13:22:16Z
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@stux This is so great. Please note how he says "Bang - Bang!" while putting the hard disc into the reading machine... 🤣😅
(DIR) Post #AbZ4VLHbsdlbC6qvPE by mafe@layer8.space
2023-11-07T13:33:34Z
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@stux I've somewhere seen Alan Touring providing video material with a "persistant memory" in a mercury-filled glass tube storing bits of information for about 4 seconds consuming insane amounts of energy and the scientists freaked out.Today we smile about the lousy Qubit successes scientists celebrate.
(DIR) Post #AbZ73kUGsUMR7NJD8a by BenCotterill@mastodon.social
2023-11-07T14:00:31Z
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@stux I have a horrible feeling I watched that when it originally aired.
(DIR) Post #AbZ9CiK2UqcIuxvRk8 by Pierrette@mastodon.uno
2023-11-07T14:28:21Z
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@stux 😁 I have been there and done that !
(DIR) Post #AbZ9uo78K8mvceukCW by aliss@outerheaven.club
2023-11-07T14:36:29.969483Z
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@6a62 micromen
(DIR) Post #AbZAillzImeQqCqbLs by WackyIdeas@mastodon.social
2023-11-07T14:44:23Z
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@stux @Pierrette “We were so much younger then. We’re older than that now.”
(DIR) Post #AbZBfxKvx5ezn4Pohs by krupo@infosec.exchange
2023-11-07T14:55:58Z
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@stux I watched this expecting a Monty Python parody until quite late in the video. Oh wait, sometimes old timey British media clips are serious!
(DIR) Post #AbZONLf4aUZT8PIDjc by Penguinflight@mastodon.scot
2023-11-07T17:16:12Z
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@stux I remember this at the time...
(DIR) Post #AbZU1ItSnV3lu7tZxo by tsvenson@mastodon.online
2023-11-07T18:21:24Z
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@stux Happened within my lifetime, and I'm only 55y 🤯
(DIR) Post #AbZWMt7NVjHWF3p8m8 by chexum@hachyderm.io
2023-11-07T18:47:47Z
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@stux This was the tv “programme” that got me on the right path to computers that i kept reading about. I have also got the book, from which I learned the basics of well.. BASIC. It was such a revelation what a FOR NEXT loop actually does. Am I old or what. #TheComputerProgramme
(DIR) Post #AbZYBeY1XfWdmB3dOy by SteveClough@metalhead.club
2023-11-07T19:08:00Z
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@stux Yep, used that. And that, and similar to that. Acorn Atoms, occasionally, BBC micros a few times, ICL 1900 machines (mainframes) when I started work.Used cassette tape to store on, floppies were a radical new idea.
(DIR) Post #AbZqepyXvnICn8WreS by samir@m.fedica.com
2023-11-07T22:33:59Z
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@stux brilliant!My first computer that I was coding on had 64K RAM, upgrading to 2M RAM a few years later was massive upgrade :-)
(DIR) Post #Abb99YQZDW25g3ON96 by ggainey@dice.camp
2023-11-08T13:36:31Z
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@stux we live in science fiction.I just wish the writers were better...
(DIR) Post #AbehjnML9r2MKPkOpc by feather1952@aus.social
2023-11-10T06:48:44Z
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@stux Thirty plus years ago I worked for a company in NZ called Databank which basically processed all banks data work plus payrolls etc. The computer room was huge, took up half the building, the rest of which was we data entry women & a couple of offices. How times have changed but good memories.
(DIR) Post #AbehxLpSJPRKzxpVpo by rebekka_m@fnordon.de
2023-11-10T06:51:16Z
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#TIL why it's called hard DISK 😅@stux
(DIR) Post #Aben3TBQNhObJdqIbI by magicknight@mastodonapp.uk
2023-11-10T07:47:44Z
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@stux how about the fact you could snort a terabyte up your nose with a microsd card !
(DIR) Post #AbeoeohdR1jOj5HUOG by fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de
2023-11-10T08:06:23Z
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@stux I remember that at the time. Was quite enlightening then, too. Although: "Small floppy" – bless. He's nostalgic for 8".
(DIR) Post #AbepvsuZ8ml0ej2276 by dutchcelt@mastodon.social
2023-11-10T08:20:41Z
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@stux Pressing the spacebar still does the same (in web browsers at least)
(DIR) Post #Abew289dylzZOVRhvk by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2023-11-10T09:27:33Z
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@stux I worked at the BBC Interactive Television Unit in 1989. I bet my colleagues there set up this demo 5 years earlier
(DIR) Post #Abez5XYqH6dKvEY92m by cer@hachyderm.io
2023-11-10T10:02:00Z
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@stux this makes me feel old. I grew up with an Acorn BBC Micro (model b, as per this machine with it's 32k memory). Its funny to think how much tech has shrunk in all my tims using computers. This was my only experience of a laserdisc with the BBC (master in this case). I think we either had one or somehow was loaned one at High School.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project
(DIR) Post #Abf07lY9Ks78qCqonw by triple@typo.social
2023-11-10T10:14:34Z
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@stux @nolwennm Wow I just love how you could load the hard drives.
(DIR) Post #Abf1VWTN8wYqz6Va2i by jack@mastodon.allnutt.net
2023-11-10T10:30:00Z
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@stux You can find a whole bunch of these programmes on the Computer Literacy Project archive site: https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/
(DIR) Post #Abf68fpEhhHV6MevIW by guffo@topspicy.social
2023-11-10T11:22:04Z
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@stux I was around at the time as a kid and very into computers. One thing that always strikes me about these videos is how they really didn't realise how fast technology was about to advance. This video would have been mid-80s, I think. The BBC Micro was sold between 1981 and 1994. If this was 1985, say, then it's only 10 years away from an internet enabled Windows 95 PC with a CD-ROM drive!
(DIR) Post #Abf86KlqDJU58A5Djk by Kmf@freiburg.social
2023-11-10T11:41:42Z
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@stux Oh well, this reminds me of the first harddisk i bought for my Z80 CP/M Computer. Had 10 Megabytes, was an 8” model and cost around 5K D-Mark. Was in 1978 and i now feel very old.
(DIR) Post #Abf9PZ3hPo4WttAakC by dev_ric@fosstodon.org
2023-11-10T11:58:44Z
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@stux "you could actually fit the whole of the encyclopedia of Britanica on this disk!" 😆
(DIR) Post #AbfBbQUBJZ3RhBLAvY by MaggieCi@universeodon.com
2023-11-10T12:23:15Z
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@stux 1982It was a very good year 😂
(DIR) Post #AbfBphpjc599YJENtI by andy@dvsn.net
2023-11-10T12:25:41Z
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@stux Reminds me, I really need to reassemble this Master! The rest of it is around here somewhere, though no laserdiscs, unfortunately.
(DIR) Post #AbfJBxgG4dnikeMFTk by andrewhinton@jawns.club
2023-11-10T13:48:17Z
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@stux @KevinMarks ah yes … the “horse and buggy days” of … the 80s …. Pardon me, I need to moisturize my ancient mummified carcass.
(DIR) Post #AbfMEbjWQhyDPjq0NU by AlisonW@fedimon.uk
2023-11-10T14:22:25Z
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@stuxAh, the good old days. One thing you didn't want to hear was a disk crash when the heads touched the spinning disks and gouged their way in. Ear-splitting!
(DIR) Post #AbfOJPocMpBho9dq3U by RonJeffries@mastodon.social
2023-11-10T14:42:23Z
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@stux @Vaguery The shorter fellow who did most of the talking was Ian McNaught-Davis. I knew him well, used to work with him. Great raconteur. Thanks for the memory!
(DIR) Post #AbfQsmZLxd5wQBUfaa by alanevans@androiddev.social
2023-11-10T14:51:39Z
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@stux "but the breakthrough is going to come with this" *pulls out 1TB micro SD card*
(DIR) Post #AbfRcELHY2FHaaaDtQ by b4ux1t3@hachyderm.io
2023-11-10T14:56:37Z
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@stux I constantly think about the fact that I use more cpu cycles to encrypt and decrypt a single web page than we did to send multiple trips to the moon.There's more computing power in my phone than in the entire building of my elementary school when I was young.There's more digital storage in my office right now than most nation states had for much of the 90s (put together, for most of that time).
(DIR) Post #Abfd3O4sYi8n673xc8 by TheMicroChannel@techhub.social
2023-11-10T16:37:03Z
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@stux I love the “it looks like magnetic tape in the form of a flat gramophone record.” The early days for sure.
(DIR) Post #AbfeXrlepvo9oyAZjU by Zotmeister@mastodon.online
2023-11-10T16:51:19Z
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@stux I interned at the lottery company GTech in the mid-90s and one of the first things they had me doing was swapping disc platters just like those.
(DIR) Post #AbffdL3hScho4FmY6K by Ragashingo@starside.social
2023-11-10T17:48:09Z
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@stux @bigzaphod They use “of course” a lot more than I'm comfortable with in that video...
(DIR) Post #AbffeIxkjrbDrBSeA4 by hmelman@mastodon.social
2023-11-10T17:48:14Z
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@stux see also https://youtu.be/pQHX-SjgQvQ?si=KlKWFgLLOhyu0sen
(DIR) Post #Abffm4wKl8rOgMVJrs by knf100@sfba.social
2023-11-10T17:52:42Z
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@stux https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cCJh5D0FCZk
(DIR) Post #Abfg4aCHHi8opxmkSm by simonzerafa@infosec.exchange
2023-11-10T18:02:33Z
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@stux Technology has come a very long way since the mid 1980's when floppy disks were the home user option and hard drives were mega expensive.The first IBM PC I used has a 5 Megabyte hard drive and that was a luxury 🙂🤷♂️
(DIR) Post #AbfgLra3uEXHfs9MjA by yorkie@toot.bike
2023-11-10T18:08:02Z
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@stux In the mid-90s, I managed/maintained a couple of British Rail radio telephone call logging machines running Unix. The storage was removable Winchester drives like the video, except they were around 12" thick and weighed a ton! The best bit, however, was booting them up from punched paper tape every time they crashed, which was approximately twice a week! 😳
(DIR) Post #Abfgf5Zw5OhUafG61Q by kboyd@phpc.social
2023-11-10T18:11:26Z
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@stux I love the amount of effort and skill that was put into telling that story. Plus, the use of physical space as part of the storytelling.Yet, I wish I could go back in time and show them a microSD card, an iPhone, and Wikipedia. (and my hope is that in 40 years, someone might be joking of doing that for our current tech generation… as opposed to society collapsing and leaving us without any such technological innovation)
(DIR) Post #AbfkPi8JNDUvLeGBsW by futurshox@squawk.mytransponder.com
2023-11-10T18:53:36Z
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@stux A BBC Micro! I still have mine :-)
(DIR) Post #AbfoJ7QZKYEPaSubmC by RobMyers@mastodon.social
2023-11-10T19:37:11Z
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@stux so many nostalgic "feels" (as the kids say these days! 🧙🏻♂️)"No we don't!" 🤣
(DIR) Post #AbfqCau9XKKKtFlZWS by bazcurtis@mastodon.social
2023-11-10T19:58:22Z
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@stux @kevinctofel I could listen to Mac all day. So many happy memories from the 80s.
(DIR) Post #Abft7rhJyN51O5CWO0 by mikestreety@hachyderm.io
2023-11-10T20:31:10Z
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@stux went off to find the original. 1982!https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/e2b5dd518bb6fca385dbc4368148bdc1
(DIR) Post #AbfteaTf1CkVXHPlI0 by ImpossibleUmbrella@infosec.exchange
2023-11-10T20:37:05Z
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@stux Ah good old days. Chris Searle & Ian MacNaught-Davis. This brings back some good memories of watching these two as a child.
(DIR) Post #Abfu88moXOc2LCSvUO by VickForcella@mastodon.derg.nz
2023-11-10T20:42:27Z
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@stux The sound of that keyboard.... takes me back.
(DIR) Post #Abg0oFfRwXMDZPU55s by Moaske@social.vivaldi.net
2023-11-10T21:57:17Z
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@stux Makes me feel old....like, "Press Play on tape"-old 🤣
(DIR) Post #Abg2211VHqsE9yvW4m by NakedGardener@mastobate.social
2023-11-10T22:10:57Z
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@stux that would have been late 70s?
(DIR) Post #Abg6OibcKQvTW3tpvk by FINOkoye@mastodon.social
2023-11-10T22:59:49Z
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@stux The way this has got me so immensely awed, grateful and slightly ashamed of the thousands of papers and books saved in my computer alone.Brb, reading them all this weekend!
(DIR) Post #AbgimCkmCcoBw6oHE8 by Holi@mastodon.gamedev.place
2023-11-11T06:09:56Z
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@stux cassette tape book is cute though 🥰
(DIR) Post #AbgwItLWg6VShpuqdk by Hairydalek@mastodon.social
2023-11-11T08:41:34Z
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@stux I used to watch that programme.
(DIR) Post #Abh2jH3TkcNVUZRCjI by EdyBolos@androiddev.social
2023-11-11T09:53:24Z
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@stux Fascinating! I am wondering though, as they were measuring disk space with number of characters, wasn't there and text compression back then?
(DIR) Post #Abh8VDqjTJsHDl9tWS by nitot@framapiaf.org
2023-11-11T10:58:13Z
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@stux funny thing that for me, the BBC microcomputer we see at the beginning and the end where for me the latest and greatest technology. It kept me awake at night. And I send this message from a much more compact and millions times more powerful device that is going to be 3 years old soon…
(DIR) Post #AbhSMMaJciHqn1X5pg by simonzerafa@infosec.exchange
2023-11-11T14:40:46Z
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@stux If you liked this then you might enjoy a slightly later BBC series called "Welcome to my World" which covered the many then possible future impacts (mostly negative) from IT and computerisation.Most of those predictions have come to be more than accurate 🫤https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtTC86oLsoND8lOfQgQmtsK-qVC4zMTLQ&si=6A-1PwZi4M5qNxzu#BBC #WelcomeToMyWorld #IT #Cyber #Futureology #Documetary
(DIR) Post #AbhcB4kUaysJpSY7Jw by sol_hsa@mastodon.online
2023-11-11T16:30:43Z
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@stux filed under "I feel old"
(DIR) Post #AbhqXwVin28UIUREhM by Buster@woof.group
2023-11-11T19:11:38Z
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@stux my first computer was an i386 with 128mb hard drive. On that we had the OS, WordPerfect, some drawing software, and about 600 hours of games including Doom, Red Baron, several Lucas/sierra adventures etc.Now a game is 120gb and nobody has to think about efficiency 😔
(DIR) Post #AbhwnvV4uhgJWQ8sro by apicultor@hachyderm.io
2023-11-11T20:21:49Z
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@stux I had a BBC Micro (with cassette drive) as a kid, and it also blows _my_ mind as to how far we've come.
(DIR) Post #AblGKz4VqoAExfvbV2 by thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club
2023-11-13T10:45:00.385703Z
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@stux "the larger the machine the greater its storage potential"
(DIR) Post #AblGMOPn6vsXqrYKFE by matt@oslo.town
2023-11-10T18:45:56Z
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@anguinea @stux That’s Britain today 🇬🇧 Post-Brexit. 😏
(DIR) Post #AblI3q746dfIA54gl6 by not_br549@jollyville.net
2023-11-13T11:04:18.794341Z
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1980 or so.
(DIR) Post #AblM8G6Toc9XkFACbw by niclas@angrytoday.com
2023-11-13T11:49:54Z
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@stux That was probably from ~1980-1982, roughly when I learned programming and 32kB machine was "massive" compared to the 8kB PET2001 that I had access to, and we (I and a friend) wrote ~70-80 games in a little over a year. Displays with ability to address individual pixels (i.e. free-form graphics) was a dream, that arrived eventually with the CBM-64, and we made crazy games, but only a few (much more ambitious).
(DIR) Post #Abo6ogJJkjVDOXFrWK by DaniDanis@mstdn.social
2023-11-14T19:42:17Z
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@stux This reminds me of a podcast I just listened to.https://open.spotify.com/episode/3jW7hrHOsnbxIegncfErYk?si=hO9L4Jy8T1aHRGTs-0dOcg#CautionaryTales #Podcast #Laserdiscs
(DIR) Post #Abqr5VDllMPVZ58eYq by kentborg@social.tchncs.de
2023-11-16T03:30:00Z
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@stux I remember those ancient times.
(DIR) Post #AbwZhAgDwwsGdT1Hea by projektionsyta@mastodon.nu
2023-11-18T21:43:35Z
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@stux