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What are some forgotten things about computing from before the Internet?
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Date: May 21st, 2019 10:11 PM Author: ivory internal respiration encarta / groliers encyclopedia
trading pirated games with friends on 3.5" floppy disks |
Date: May 21st, 2019 10:13 PM Author: dun mother BBSes
Online gaming via modem connections
Piracy via floppy disks
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Date: May 21st, 2019 10:13 PM Author: Self-absorbed Crackhouse Bootdisks to free up memory to play games in ms-dos (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4266551&forum_id=2#38269482) |
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Date: May 21st, 2019 10:14 PM Author: dun mother Installing games from like 12 floppies (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4266551&forum_id=2#38269489) |
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Date: May 21st, 2019 10:13 PM Author: big beta tanning salon newt pr#6 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4266551&forum_id=2#38269485) |
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Date: May 21st, 2019 10:14 PM Author: marvelous reading party The computer teacher turning on all the Apple IIgs machines at once and everyone acting like they were being killed by machine guns (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4266551&forum_id=2#38269488) |
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Date: May 21st, 2019 10:14 PM Author: Histrionic school codepig my take from this is that dbg is significantly older than i had previously assumed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4266551&forum_id=2#38269493) |
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Date: May 21st, 2019 10:23 PM Author: Self-absorbed Crackhouse 8 characters per filename + 3 for file extention MAX (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4266551&forum_id=2#38269540) |
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Date: May 21st, 2019 10:27 PM Author: ruby stage copy protection wheels and other schemes you couldn't just photocopy
editing autoexec.bat BASIC |
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Date: May 21st, 2019 10:33 PM Author: dun mother Copy protection that could be defeated with electrical tape
The dreaded "bad sector" that means all the data is gone |
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Date: May 21st, 2019 10:41 PM Author: ruby stage RAM "doublers" the turbo button |
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Date: May 21st, 2019 11:24 PM Author: dun mother For the really rich: shotgun modems that would use multiple lines. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4266551&forum_id=2#38269889) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2019 7:12 PM Author: Trip Juggernaut Some people had ISDN lines, which were expensive even though they were only 64k (instead of 56k for modems) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4266551&forum_id=2#38273908) |
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Date: May 21st, 2019 11:28 PM Author: Twinkling Alpha Dilemma Requiring entry of words or codes from the game's manual to proceed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4266551&forum_id=2#38269909) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2019 9:44 PM Author: underhanded bawdyhouse windowlicker I had a book on coding batch files and I had automated a bunch of tasks using batch files (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4266551&forum_id=2#38274694) |
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Date: May 21st, 2019 10:30 PM Author: Sticky razzle trust fund masturbator mavis beacon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4266551&forum_id=2#38269585) |
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Date: May 21st, 2019 10:41 PM Author: ivory internal respiration rofl, that would be racis in the 2010s (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4266551&forum_id=2#38269646) |
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Date: May 21st, 2019 11:32 PM Author: fear-inspiring nofapping depressive station Cd/ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4266551&forum_id=2#38269928) |
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Date: May 21st, 2019 11:32 PM Author: fear-inspiring nofapping depressive station afterdark and flying toasters (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4266551&forum_id=2#38269934) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2019 6:54 PM Author: Chestnut out-of-control roommate Yes, SCREEN SAVERS in general. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4266551&forum_id=2#38273841) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2019 6:35 PM Author: ruby stage Motorola CPUs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4266551&forum_id=2#38273755) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2019 6:45 PM Author: Flatulent Heady Crotch Kitchen zug zug (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4266551&forum_id=2#38273792) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2019 9:55 PM Author: titillating misanthropic church building ratface (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4266551&forum_id=2#38274733) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2019 7:03 PM Author: Trip Juggernaut SoundBlaster card. It was the shit.
Every computer function needed its own separate chip or card. Modems, sound, 3d gfx. Math needed its own coprocessor. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2019 7:15 PM Author: Trip Juggernaut PCs were called "IBM compatible" because they hacked ibm's bios.
IBM also had their own OS |
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Date: May 22nd, 2019 7:26 PM Author: ruby stage OS/2 the IBM PS/2s were actually pretty cr back then |