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'88 Freshman here. I remember getting the spec sheet for the computer we

had to buy. I had no idea what a lot of it meant. For example, I was only aware of 5.25 and 3.5 disk drives, and no other storage medium.

I called a friend of mine who was a 1st gen computer geek to see if he could translate some of the gobledygook.

Me: Do you know what a twenty emm-bee hard drive is?
Him: GET IT!
Me: But what is it?
Him: YOU WANT IT!

Soooo glad listened to him. After seeing classmates compiling Fortran programs with the dual floppy computers instead of a hard drive, I think I would have thrown that machine out a window at some point. Computer with a hard drive was bad enough.

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Posted: 04/23/2019 at 6:56PM

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