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"To get all the professional features, you had to pay money for your browser; a ludicrous idea today." UK: Yup, I walked into a software shop in Birmingham's c
by keithpeter 13y ago
"To get all the professional features, you had to pay money for your browser; a ludicrous idea today."
UK: Yup, I walked into a software shop in Birmingham's city centre just before then and bought a copy of Netscape for around £20 or so. It came on floppies in a box with a short manual, and I installed it on my Pentium with 16Mb of RAM. It has moved fast in 15 years.
- sliverstorm 13y agoI mean, floppies cost money. Even if you had a second phone line to tie up downloading a collection of floppies, where would you store it? (Or did you have an HDD by that time? I forget)
- keithpeter 13y agoOh, yes we had hard drives. 5.25 inch Quantum Bigfoot to be precise. Netscape was paid for software originally. EULA and all.
- dangrossman 13y agoMid-1990s, Pentium with 16MB RAM? A computer back then was pretty much identical to a computer today -- Windows 95 looks and feels little different from Windows XP. The hard drive would've been a ~1-1.6GB 5.25" IDE drive, FAT32 formatted, which will plug right into any motherboard that still has the connector (or an IDE->USB external enclosure, which you can pick up at Staples today for $20). The software on that drive would mostly still run in Win8 too.
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- keithpeter 13y agoThere may have been a RAM upgrade at some point, I remember buying a pair of 32Mb sticks... Editing large image files took a long time as you went into swap. Being able to capture, edit and play video (at any resolution!) would have been very impressive on that old Celeron.