If Win 10 still used floppies for install ...

Barman58 said:

and "there's a guy works down the chip shop thinks he's Elvis"

And I'm Batman....

Frabnkhs said:

And I'm Batman....

Batman vs. Elvis film?

Paper tape? Teletype Model 28? Best part of 30+ years sending wx reports and flight notices to a mainframe computer.

Berton said:

I had an 80286 at work about the time of my first computer in '92, Hewitt-Rand with AMD80386/40MHZ with 4MB RAM and 120MB HDD both 3.5" and 5.25" floppies. Retired in late '94 and week later got offered a part-time job in a computer store then started building machines, been helping people with them and repairing past 25 years.

Old? Will be 81 right after Christmas.

81! Dang and they still allow you to use a computer at the home? lol

I used 1,44 diskettes, i remember my msdos 6.22 and windows 3.1 diskettes,
my mouse drivers and sound drivers were on floppies. And i remember tons of flopies when i install windows 95 before we have cd version of it.
I left my diskettes at 2005. 3 boxes of maxwell with colored labels
I had a case with lock to save my flopies

We will talk about how 1TB external drive was when people will use petabytes at 2040.
Sure if we live...

Couple weeks ago I came across a Toshiba Satellite T1910CS laptop in my storage shed, still works considering it has 4MB RAM, 210MB HDD, MS-DOS 6.20 and Windows 3.1. Now if I can just find my Serial mouse. It's a decent performer with an Intel 486SX/33MHz CPU.

My first mainframe was an IBM 7040, using the "IBSYS" OS. No disk drives, just tapes. Took forever to just compile a Fortran program. That was in college. Then the school upgraded to a 360/50 with disk drives but kept the 1403 line printer.

My first mini was an IBM 1130 with 4K words. (16-bit). Like another poster, I had to write programs that used overlays, but we had a 1.2 MB removable cartridge disk drive. Cartridges were expensive so we stored our data on 80-column punch cards. Boxes and boxes of punch cards. Also a Calcomp drum plotter with 6 or 8 ink pens. Noisy, so noisy that you couldn't be the same room when the plotter was working.

I guess we could lower the age of this new group to 60, but only if you "qualify," because you used paper tape or a teletype or a 300 baud modem.

x509 said:

I guess we could lower the age of this new group to 60, but only if you "qualify," because you used paper tape or a teletype or a 300 baud modem.

I remember the boxes of 80 column punch cards. Being a lowly Corporal in a unit very top heavy with officers guess who got to keypunch his fingers to the bone?

When I remember the key punch days and compare it to my toys now, and sometimes I just get all amazed 😎

The IBM 360, remember that evil beast well