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Tau@aussie.zone 3 days ago
One of the places I work at has a display cabinet showing historical media formats and devices, seeing things in it like the zip disc and the Sony camera that took floppies always make me feel like Elrond:
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Zip disks ain’t that old!
Fixing computers on location I once saw a word processor (as in, a very limited specialised computer for writing text, not the software for general purpose computers that killed 'em) on display. Now that was old.
(Not as old as the completely mechanical typewriter I wrote my school essays with, though.)
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Mum had a Compaq with a 5.25" in the side of the screen. Ran Zork and some lame work shit she needed.
Tau@aussie.zone 3 days ago
That’s what I like to think as well, but I guess it has been a while. It’s like how I think 90s cars are still fairly recent until I see ones rolling around with historic rego…