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[META] What are the demographics of this community? (lemmy.sdf.org)

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Am I the only Zoomer? I see a lot of "I remember"-type responses, so I have to wonder.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Xennial!

First computer I used in school was an Apple IIe with a 720kb, 5.25" floppy drive.

First computer at home was a Tandy 1000. Still out in the garage, I think.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Xennial as well. My first home PC was an Epson with 640k and a 3.5 DD disk drive and a "Turbo" button on the front of the case.

I remember getting a kick out of a game that used RealSound, a piece of software for doing voice and other similarly complex sound out of the standard PC speaker (apparently it handled 6-bit PCM audio, though I wouldn't know that at the time).

That game included a card explaining how to improve the audio out of your PC by building a cable to connect the line going to your PC speaker to an RCA cable to connect it to a stereo or boombox. The cable wasn't great at what it did (and better designs had been devised since), but it was pretty simple (if I remember right just some RCA cable, a couple of alligator clips and a capacitor).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Floppy drives have been a recent fascination of mine. A small, semi-disposable soft-robotic hard drive, how ingenious.