BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: February 07, 2012 03:52PM
Blank diskette sales dropped then too.
Onyma Report This Comment Date: February 07, 2012 04:29PM
As did sales of drink coasters.
pulse Report This Comment Date: February 08, 2012 12:57AM
And frisbees
woberto Report This Comment Date: February 08, 2012 01:17AM
I didn't use AOL because it didn't come on 5&1/4"
pulse Report This Comment Date: February 08, 2012 04:01AM
I actually used AOL when I moved to the UK, they were one of very few ISPs who
had a 0800 free call dialup number, which was important to me when a phone call
there was 2p a minute
They were only 20 pounds a month unlimited, so I used to spend 24 hours on it
Then I moved, used One.Tel UK instead, then got ADSL, rest is history. Aah, good
times.
Onyma Report This Comment Date: February 08, 2012 01:56PM
I was a Compuserve guy. Viva la competition!
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: February 08, 2012 05:14PM
first pc I had was a packard-bell 486/sx75 with I think a 9600 modem...AOL chat
rooms were the closest thing to internet that pos could handle...
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: February 08, 2012 06:30PM
BBSes. Fidonet, colleges, etc. 1200 baud. 10Mhz NEC V20 PC-XT clone w/EGA.
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pulse Report This Comment Date: February 10, 2012 06:46AM
Dad had an original IBM XT when I was a kid, but that was good for little more
than some very basic games.
The first real PC we had was an Amstrad 386. First modem wasn't until I had the
486/SX 25 with a mega 4MB ram and 80MB hard drive. Also bought me a sound
blaster 2, a cdrom drive and a 14.4k internal modem!
Ah the power.
RAM never really kept up with HD space though. Back in 1992, I had 1/20 the
amount of RAM/HD space.
Today I only have 32GB RAM in my desktop, but I sure as fuck have more than
640GB of HD space. It's in the region of 25TB now. Where's my 1.25TB RAM damn
it?