How is it possible? (1 Viewer)

[pappajohn]

I remember me and my brother loading a program on my ZX Spectrum.
Took us around 2 hours of typing things like ..
"If inkey string = 1 then go-to".......and so on.
It did nothing more than draw lines on a varying colour background

 

[Chris]

It’s all great when the technology works.

However about 2 years ago my firm had an internet outage for about 2 weeks and it was a bloody disaster.

Of course BT Openreach hardly covered themselves in glory

 

[Ingwe]

In the old days (1970s) it was rumoured that ICL (British computer manufacturer for you youngsters here) lost out to IBM because ICL couldn’t make a computer that didn’t leak oil.

 

[Odd job]

My first computer ran windows 3.1 and had 3mb of ram

 

[NigelNovice]

I came across a stash of old IT equipment in a council store room that had these large 5 1/2" floppy discs, they were windows 3.0 that ran off the floppy you didn't install in them days

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[kevenh]

I came across a stash of old IT equipment in a council store room that had these large 5 1/2" floppy discs, they were windows 3.0 that ran off the floppy you didn't install in them days

You had to install early Windows 3.x operating systems.
MSDOS was needed to be running to launch them, let alone run them.
An installed Win 3 OS would be greater than the 1.44MB floppy.

Edit. Source & for later findings…

 

[kevenh]

windows 3.0 that ran off the floppy

Windows 2 was the last one to run off floppy.
And the original disks maybe worth summat today

Source

 

[Odd job]

My first copy of Microsoft office came on 21 floppies and took hours to install

 

[Richard n Ann]

When did they start using CD roms?

 

[Odd job]

When did they start using CD roms?

I'm not sure but I do remember the joy when I installed a Zip drive with 100mb storage to replace the 1.4mb floppy

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[kevenh]

When did they start using CD roms?

Not quite when expected. Console games with a CD-ROM drive appeared in 1988 but it was the early 90’s before commonly creeping into a Personal Computer.
Source

 

[Spriddler]

A key principle of Quantum Mechanics is that you can understand it and not understand it at the same time

Only one person in ten understands binary, the other one doesn't.

 

[kevenh]

Only one person in ten understands binary, the other one doesn't.

A joke within a joke?
Or written wrong with nine unaccounted for?

“there are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who dont.”