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  • jwalkjwalk Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Fuck you, I have an entire filing cabinet full of ZIP 100 disks. Of course, the only reader I have is external SCSI and fuck if i have SCSI on any machine now.

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    I remember in high school one of the teachers taught a computer course and we had Apple IIe comps
    he once claimed that no computer would need more than 512k of ram because no conceivable software would ever need anywhere near that much memory

    i still use only 512

    i think he's right

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  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Man I've still got stacks of floppies sitting around here somewhere, I think.

    I should load up some wordperfect. It'll be good times.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Blaket wrote: »
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    How about the fact that you can buy 8 gb memory cards that are the size of your pinky.

    That shit is straight out science fiction.

    i still can't figure out what the hell i would do with an 8 gig card
    the capacity on those things is mind-blowing though

    I use them for transfering several hours worth of video.

    Or on occasion work files of solid model contacts.

    But really 99% of the time it's barely full.

    i just have no use at all for a usb drive at the moment
    maybe for transferring files between home and work when i get a better job?

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  • jwalkjwalk Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    No shit, probably the entire cabinet full of ZIP disks would fit on this fuckin 1GB USB thumb drive that I got for free as a promotion.

    Course I have boxes full of 3.5" Amiga disks and the other day I was plowing thru my box of cassette tapes and I guess I threw my Commodore tapes in there too. Why the fuck do I even keep this stuff around, I have no idea.

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  • transistorsecttransistorsect Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    So my sophomore year in high school, my teacher required that we bring 5 3 1/2 inch floppies for my BCIS. I tell this to my stepfather, he goes to the store and returns with the 5 1/4 inch floppy disk. :(

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    I remember in high school one of the teachers taught a computer course and we had Apple IIe comps
    he once claimed that no computer would need more than 512k of ram because no conceivable software would ever need anywhere near that much memory

    i still use only 512

    i think he's right

    bullshit

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  • satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    i am going to collect zip disks and bring them back like vinyl in 20 years

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  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    the cheat wrote: »
    those disks were like ten fuckin dollars!

    Yeah, that's the only reason they didn't do so well.

    if they were more affordable, those things would be hells of popular.

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I got two words for you, sugar:

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    Zip Disk!

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  • Uncle LongUncle Long Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    I remember in high school one of the teachers taught a computer course and we had Apple IIe comps
    he once claimed that no computer would need more than 512k of ram because no conceivable software would ever need anywhere near that much memory

    i still use only 512

    i think he's right

    bullshit

    I think he's thinking 512 mb, not kb.

    Uncle Long on
  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    Uncle Long wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    I remember in high school one of the teachers taught a computer course and we had Apple IIe comps
    he once claimed that no computer would need more than 512k of ram because no conceivable software would ever need anywhere near that much memory

    i still use only 512

    i think he's right

    bullshit

    I think he's thinking 512 mb, not kb.

    more than likely

    Druhim on
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  • Caulk Bite 6Caulk Bite 6 One of the multitude of Dans infesting this place Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    We had those. it was pretty awesome, except for the fact that no-one else actually used them.

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Uncle Long wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    I remember in high school one of the teachers taught a computer course and we had Apple IIe comps
    he once claimed that no computer would need more than 512k of ram because no conceivable software would ever need anywhere near that much memory

    i still use only 512

    i think he's right

    bullshit

    I think he's thinking 512 mb, not kb.

    nope
    i'm just very careful

    potatoe on
  • Uncle LongUncle Long Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    Uncle Long wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    I remember in high school one of the teachers taught a computer course and we had Apple IIe comps
    he once claimed that no computer would need more than 512k of ram because no conceivable software would ever need anywhere near that much memory

    i still use only 512

    i think he's right

    bullshit

    I think he's thinking 512 mb, not kb.

    more than likely

    I mean, he's got to be. I'm not even sure he could run the internet otherwise.

    Uncle Long on
  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm pretty sure my calculator has more memory than 512kb.

    And it's like 10 years old.

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  • Uncle LongUncle Long Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Man, my physics teacher in high school loved to hold up his Ti-83 and tell the class, "this calculator has more computing power than what went to the moon!" He did this in all of his classes, math related or no.

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    i get sick of hearing that line

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    Uncle Long wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    I remember in high school one of the teachers taught a computer course and we had Apple IIe comps
    he once claimed that no computer would need more than 512k of ram because no conceivable software would ever need anywhere near that much memory

    i still use only 512

    i think he's right

    bullshit

    I think he's thinking 512 mb, not kb.

    nope
    i'm just very careful

    bull fucking shit

    you couldn't be posting on this forum right now if your system only had 512kB of RAM

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  • TenTen Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    Uncle Long wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    I remember in high school one of the teachers taught a computer course and we had Apple IIe comps
    he once claimed that no computer would need more than 512k of ram because no conceivable software would ever need anywhere near that much memory

    i still use only 512

    i think he's right

    bullshit

    I think he's thinking 512 mb, not kb.

    nope
    i'm just very careful

    bull fucking shit

    you couldn't be posting on this forum right now if your system only had 512kB of RAM

    Dru, I can't tell whether you're being serious or not

    Ten on
  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Dru I think Mr Potato(e) is joking

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    (it started with me misreading kb as mb, but i just went with it after that)

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Uncle Long wrote: »
    Man, my physics teacher in high school loved to hold up his Ti-83 and tell the class, "this calculator has more computing power than what went to the moon!" He did this in all of his classes, math related or no.

    It's not the size of your ram dude, it's how you use your sliderule.

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  • jwalkjwalk Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Uh yeah, my fucking car keys have more than 512kb of ram.

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  • Uncle LongUncle Long Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Blaket wrote: »
    Uncle Long wrote: »
    Man, my physics teacher in high school loved to hold up his Ti-83 and tell the class, "this calculator has more computing power than what went to the moon!" He did this in all of his classes, math related or no.

    It's not the size of your ram dude, it's how you use your sliderule.

    Motherfucker loved his sliderule.

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  • TenTen Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    (it started with me misreading kb as mb, but i just went with it after that)

    Even 512MB is unbearably slow for me these days, on an XP machine with a not unreasonable amount of apps loaded

    Ten on
  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    (it started with me misreading kb as mb, but i just went with it after that)

    yeah well I am old and dumb so there

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    (it started with me misreading kb as mb, but i just went with it after that)

    yeah well I am old and dumb so there

    i guess that's better than being young and illiterate

    potatoe on
  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    my dick has more ram than potatoe's computer

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    My cupboard has like a gig of RAM.

    Granted it's just sitting there doing nothing, and they are only 256MB sticks so they are useless but I mean still. My cupboard.

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Ten wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    (it started with me misreading kb as mb, but i just went with it after that)

    Even 512MB is unbearably slow for me these days, on an XP machine with a not unreasonable amount of apps loaded

    you get used to it, really

    i've been using 512 for about 4.5 years now, and that was a step up from what i had been using before

    potatoe on
  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    seriously I will use my dick to compute things faster than potatoe's box

    just watch

    floppa floppa floppa floppa flop

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  • Cold Salmon and HatredCold Salmon and Hatred __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    I was using like 256 MB of RAM until 2008

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    My old computer had 512MB of ram and it ran ok with XP.

    Now I have 8 times that and wonder how I used to live, it's what you are used to.

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    man 4 gigs of RAM here

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  • TenTen Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    Ten wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    (it started with me misreading kb as mb, but i just went with it after that)

    Even 512MB is unbearably slow for me these days, on an XP machine with a not unreasonable amount of apps loaded

    you get used to it, really

    i've been using 512 for about 4.5 years now, and that was a step up from what i had been using before

    I guess it depends on what you're using it for, it's probably fine for basic office/web stuff. Still, I like to have lots of stuff open at once and even on 2GB I get a lot of swapping sometimes.

    I assume your computer is too old for new RAM, because a 2GB stick is like $50 these days

    Ten on
  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    I have like 2 free gigs of RAM I think

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    seriously I will use my dick to compute things faster than potatoe's box

    just watch

    floppa floppa floppa floppa flop

    why don't you use your dick

    to compute things inside my box

    your gigaflops
    show me them

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  • Uncle LongUncle Long Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm running on 1 gig. The max for this little iBook is 1.5 GB. I really don't think the upgrade is worth it at this point.

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Ten wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    Ten wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    (it started with me misreading kb as mb, but i just went with it after that)

    Even 512MB is unbearably slow for me these days, on an XP machine with a not unreasonable amount of apps loaded

    you get used to it, really

    i've been using 512 for about 4.5 years now, and that was a step up from what i had been using before

    I guess it depends on what you're using it for, it's probably fine for basic office/web stuff. Still, I like to have lots of stuff open at once and even on 2GB I get a lot of swapping sometimes.

    I assume your computer is too old for new RAM, because a 2GB stick is like $50 these days

    right now i'm riding an old dell laptop
    i run visual studio 2005 on it
    with winamp and firefox (well, chrome now, i guess) running

    i do everything on it, really
    browsing
    word documents
    lots of coding

    you learn to watch your resources carefully

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