You know you're old when...

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

5.25" floppy? Get off my lawn! My first computer had 8" Shugart floppies (SSSD) that only held 241K.....

I shall remove my bod from your sod.

[Esteban]

Leave us to not forget programs on cassettes, and the enormous amount of time they took to load.

[JeffL0]

My first computer was a 286 running at 10MHz with a "Turbo" button for 20MHz. It had a HDD, which was not common at the time, a massive 20MB disk (nope, not a typo, 20 Megabytes)

[3.0L]

You sniffed this crap… I mean air freshener.

[dscabra]

Originally Posted by M_Six

1.44MB floppy? Newb.

Commodore 64 with the 5-1/4" floppy and flight sim. Now that was something to behold.

Originally Posted by Esteban

Oh yes, Commodore 64. I even got the Commodore 128, thinking how much better the programs would be. Sadly, hardly anything was made to take advantage of it because the C-64 was so popular.

Originally Posted by vreihen16

5.25" floppy? Get off my lawn! My first computer had 8" Shugart floppies (SSSD) that only held 241K.....

Originally Posted by JJ 911SC

.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor...he_floppy_disk

Originally Posted by Esteban

Leave us to not forget programs on cassettes, and the enormous amount of time they took to load.

This is what I used to load programs on the first computers I used in the workplace.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by dscabra

This is what I used to load programs on the first computers I used in the workplace.

My high school had terminals with those tape feeds. Mainframe was in the other high school across town. No GUI or even a monitor. Just a fancy typewriter.