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This reads like my life 10 years ago. Running BeOS with a zip drive sneaker net. Apple had the hot swappable bays much earlier than 2000, I remember using them
by jonhohle 14y ago
This reads like my life 10 years ago. Running BeOS with a zip drive sneaker net. Apple had the hot swappable bays much earlier than 2000, I remember using them as early as '98; compaq had the feature as well (floppy drive or LS120).
The one thing in that list that I'm sad to have missed was minidisc. It still sets off my nastolgia meter.
What about dial-up modems, IRQ settings, and serial ports?
- sp332 14y agoI don't think anyone misses IRQ settings :)
- billswift 14y agoNOW I don't, but while setting IRQs was annoying, some of the weird stuff that sometimes happened in the earlier days of plug-and-play was worse.
- davidarkemp2 14y agoI still have a (parallel port) Zip Drive, a minidisc recorder/player (and shoe box of minidiscs) and a graphing calculator cluttering up my study. We used to use a minidisc recorder and a pair of PZMs to record all our rehersals - It then took about a week to rip and burn them onto CD, but a few good ideas were saved/salvedged in this way.
- slantyyz 14y ago>> What about dial-up modems +++ ATH