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sonofhansyesterday at 7:45 PM2 repliesview on HN

Can I just lean on my cane for a second, and say that the first machine I connected to a network had 256KB RAM, and I considered myself lucky to have so much. My 150 baud modem downloaded text slower than I could read it.

I know how we got to these large numbers. Shit, I helped build the road. It still blows my brains out.


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themadturkyesterday at 11:34 PM

Yup. I ran UUCP on a 64K Kaypro with a 1200 baud modem.

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Doctor_Feggyesterday at 10:00 PM

Luxury. I dialled into FidoNet with my 64k Amstrad CPC (contd. p94. Mein gott I’m old)

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