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Wire-wrapping is a lost art form. <nt>
02/27/12 04:56 AM


> The BBS discussion reminds me of the "First" computer I had...
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> When a 200 meg hard drive was $200, and now you can get 2 terabyte drives cheaper.
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> When a 1/2 meg video card cost more than some 1 Gig video cards now cost.
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> That I pay $30 for broadband and I used to pay $20 for dial up.
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> When sound cards were over $200 and now they're cheap for 7.1 surround sound.
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> 14" color monitors were $200 and now you can get 22" widescreen monitors cheaper.
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> My first 4X CD reader was $200, and now I have a $22 DVD R/W setup.
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> 4 Megs of Memory was $200, now you can get 16 GB cheaper.
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> My 33 MHZ 486 cpu cost more than 2.6 ghz dual cores cost now.
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> Boy technology has advanced.







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Subject Posted by Posted on
* Anyone remember the "good ole days" of hardware? greybeard 02/26/12 10:34 PM
. * Remember when you had to buy a processor, AND a math coprocessor? TheBigAmbulance  02/27/12 04:33 PM
. * Re: Anyone remember the "good ole days" of hardware? Andrew  02/27/12 06:18 AM
. * Re: Anyone remember the "good ole days" of hardware? Bekki Doll  02/27/12 06:56 AM
. * Wire-wrapping is a lost art form. <nt> italieAdministrator  02/27/12 04:56 AM
. * Re: Anyone remember the "good ole days" of hardware? Llaffer  02/27/12 03:29 AM
. * Re: Anyone remember the "good ole days" of hardware? redk9258  02/27/12 03:56 AM
. * Re: Anyone remember the "good ole days" of hardware? Bekki Doll  02/26/12 11:41 PM
. * Re: Anyone remember the "good ole days" of hardware? URherenow  02/27/12 04:15 PM
. * Re: Anyone remember the "good ole days" of hardware? yaggy  02/27/12 05:01 PM
. * Re: Anyone remember the "good ole days" of hardware? Trebor  02/27/12 05:23 PM
. * Re: Anyone remember the "good ole days" of hardware? Trebor  02/27/12 04:57 PM
. * Re: Anyone remember the "good ole days" of hardware? Bekki Doll  02/27/12 11:15 PM

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