• nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    My dad had a 286 with a 40MB hard drive in it. When it spun up it sounded like a plane taking off.

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      9 days ago

      My 286er had 2MB RAM and no hard drive, just two 5.25" floppy drives. One to boot the OS from, the other for storage and software.

      I upgrade it to 4 MB RAM and bought a 20 MB hard drive, moved EVERY piece of software I had onto it, and it was like 20% full. I sincerely thought that should last forever.

      Today I casually send my wife a 10 sec video from the supermarket to choose which yoghurt she wants and that takes up about 25 MB.

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        9 days ago

        I had 128KB of RAM and I loaded my games from tape. And most of those only used 48KB of it.

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          9 days ago

          Yeah we still had an old 8086 with tape drive and all from my dad’s university times around, but I never acutely used that one.