Today I taught my 7 year old daughter what was a diskette, and what could be done with it, I compared it with a 4 GB flash drive. Vs. 1.44 Mb.
Not to mention if I try to explain the capacity of floppy disks of 5 1/4 (I think I still have one of these diskettes.).
I started when these last ones were almost not being used, but if I got to collect some magazines where they brought me some 3 1/2 floppy disks, they were about 54 disks, for their installation (From windows 95) they should be inserted one behind the other , at the end, the whole package Lotus 1-2-3 (Similar to the office) was installed.
As many of you know I moved from the country I went to more than 1500 km, but still I brought some old things. Today, stirring up old things, I found this ...
Up here you can see a 56 K modem, these marked a before and after. I remember those long nights that to download music or a program made a dial up connection to a toll-free number (Nro: 555-5555 User: alternative Pass: free) I will never forget it, from 8:00 p.m. until 08:00 p.m. The cost of the telephone minute was reduced by half and on Sunday all day.
Being connected all night had messaging programs but had no one to chat with.
I will never forget when in the course we established through direct telnet between two pcs via modem, it was amazing!
Up a PII, the cassette, which came with a cache memory. I remember that for everything to work it had to be configured with jumpers on the motherboard.
Decades suffering with incompatibilities of the S.O.
At that time we played doom, dukem nukem or quake. Hours and hours, today the closest thing is minecraft.
In short, good memories do not disappear easily and those that almost caused us disorders ... (Install something in Windows 95, 98, Me).
If you have any images of the memory will be welcome in the comments.
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