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epark
Everpure
17 hours ago

Old Tech Tuesday: Good Things Come to Those Who Wait.

Remember when technology made you wait? "Be kind, rewind, "Rewinding a VHS before returning it to blockbuster. Making TWO trips to get photos to be developed. Waiting for your song to come on the r...
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Ludes
Community Manager
16 hours ago

The first IBM PC had 2 5 1/4 floppy drives that were required to boot the computer and load any programs you wanted to run.  The full system boot from the a: drive usually took 2-3 minutes and THEN you had to load and run the game or word processing program you wanted to run from the b: drive so another 2-3 minutes.  Pretty crazy given how apps are just at our fingertips now and systems boot everything directly from HDD.