http://www.marocharim.com/2009/07/01/x-list-retro-stuff-from-computing-days-gone-by/ Anarchy for the WWW Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:46:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.marocharim.com/2009/07/01/x-list-retro-stuff-from-computing-days-gone-by/comment-page-1/#comment-5780 X-List: Retro Stuff From Computing Days Gone By Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:39:18 +0000 http://www.marocharim.com/?p=3040#comment-5780 [...] News Sources wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptI’m not a “computer geek” or a “techie” or anything, but I’ve been working with computers for my whole life. I remember Father’s computer having those punch-card systems and giant office mainframes. My first computer was an AST 386 with a working lock and a funky “Turbo” button that was the solution to all system slowdown. This was a time when 1.44 MB diskettes were all the rage, parallel ports were the industry standard, and Windows 3.11 was for wimps: real computer users used DOS. I guess [...] [...] News Sources wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptI’m not a “computer geek” or a “techie” or anything, but I’ve been working with computers for my whole life. I remember Father’s computer having those punch-card systems and giant office mainframes. My first computer was an AST 386 with a working lock and a funky “Turbo” button that was the solution to all system slowdown. This was a time when 1.44 MB diskettes were all the rage, parallel ports were the industry standard, and Windows 3.11 was for wimps: real computer users used DOS. I guess [...]

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