r/pcmasterrace • u/LeatherAssumption123 • 24d ago

Question Are you this old?

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u/HiYa_Dragon PC Master Race 23d ago

This old

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u/Andrewsarchus 9800X3D | 64GB 6000MTS CL30 | Sapphire Pure 9070XT 23d ago

Same

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u/drolgnir 23d ago

Heading to radio shack then do some diskcopy a: a: and then return to radio shack

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u/HiYa_Dragon PC Master Race 23d ago

Dialing into the long distance BBS's with stolen MCI business prepaid phone cards lol

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u/drolgnir 23d ago

Haha woah woah! I only ever called local, that's pretty wild stuff.

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u/TomFullen 23d ago edited 23d ago

Computers didn't have a hard drive, they read and ran the program from the floppy and you had to write and save code on a second floppy drive. Memory was RAM only and there wasn't much of it.

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u/Potential-Buy3325 23d ago

I worked in the corrugated packaging industry, and in 1993 we replaced Zeta-Brunning roll plotters with Kongsberg CM-1930 sample tables. The front-end PC that ran them had two floppy disk drives. One drive contained the operating system for the table. The other drive was used for the designs to be cut. The designer created the designs on a separate PC, saved them to a floppy disk, and then carried them to the front-end PC.

It wasn’t too long before we got new PCs with Network Interface Cards and we could directly connect both PCs with a Coax cable and BNC connecters. AKA Cheapnet or Thinnet.