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Those were the days 1980's computing technology

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Old 15-07-2009, 7:44 PM   #1
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Those were the days 1980's computing technology

Look at the size of some of this stuff

Hard-Drive Technology (1984), Optical Storage In (1985)

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Laser Disk Interactive (1985), CDI: Compact Disc Interactive (1988)

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Laptop 89' Convention, Piracy & Costly Software (1985)

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Old 17-07-2009, 2:05 PM   #2
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Re: Those were the days 1980's computing technology

I remember having those discs on my old Commodore 64, the disc drive itself was insanely huge. Them were the days
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Re: Those were the days 1980's computing technology

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I remember having those discs on my old Commodore 64, the disc drive itself was insanely huge. Them were the days
Not only huge, but I remember a game even on disk taking about 2 minutes to load!!!
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