Adam. Tape cartilages instead of floppies.

 

From: Sean Rector [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:11 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT : 2000 .vs. 2009

 

My 1st computer was a Commodore PET – and then that fall, I took (and ended
up being an asst. teacher) a programming class in 7th grade – they were
using a mix of PET’s and CBM’s.

 

Sean Rector, MCSE

 

From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:00 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT : 2000 .vs. 2009

 

I had a Timex Sinclair.  Cutting edge!!!

 

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From: paul chinnery [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 8:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT : 2000 .vs. 2009

Yes, I remember Computer Shopper. I can also remember when CDW was Computer
Discount Warehouse.
Actually, I kinda wish I had kept my old Color Computer (CoCo) magazines.
That's back when TRS came out with their Color Computer with it's Motorola
6509 chip.  Came with a whole 8k of memory.  I remember doubling the memory
by piggy-backing the mem chips onto the second set of chips to give me 16k.


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Subject: RE: OT : 2000 .vs. 2009
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:24:02 -0400
To: [email protected]
CC: 
From: [email protected]

OK, if we are on a nostalgia trip….. I miss the old days when Computer
Shopper was the size of a phone book and “The Hard Edge” with Bill and
Alice. Who remembers the Loft of Doom and Pepsi Cola?

 

Chris Bodnar, MCSE
Sr. Systems Engineer
Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 610-807-6459
Fax: 610-807-6003

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From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT : 2000 .vs. 2009

 

Smile want to see what is in my home office closet, Windows IT Pro magazines
from 7 years ago, stacked from the floor to the ceiling, my Wife is still
trying to get me to throw some of them out, and I tell her, but what if I
need to look something up in some obscure issue from like 2004, she just
gives me that “whatever”  face and laughs…

 

Z

 

Edward Ziots

Network Engineer

Lifespan Organization

MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network +

[email protected]

Phone:401-639-3505

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From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 6:11 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT : 2000 .vs. 2009

 

cleaning out some old clutter in my home office, and found a couple PC
Magazines from June 2000 ...

 

Some amazing/fun/sad comparisons 

 

Although PC Mag is now out of production, the last issues were about 80
pages or so, June 2000 had 238 pages

 

Crucial was advertising memory upgrades of 64mb for the bargain discount
price of $59 versus the $110+ retail of the day   /   memory  today is
easily 512mb for under $50

 

Laptops with 'up to' 14.1" screens were touted in 2000 to have 64mb RAM, 8gb
hard drives, and only cost around $2400 

 

Article from June 2000 about IBM's "Really Big Hard Drive" for only $699,
had a whopping 75gb capacity  ( I do remember scsi server drives in the
4gb-8gb range then )    ... in 2009, a couple months ago, a 1.5tb, yes
TERAbyte SATA drive was under $150 !

 

I almost hate to throw those old issues away .... almost

 


Erik Goldoff


IT  Consultant

Systems, Networks, & Security 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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