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[–] [email protected] 70 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Hey y'all remember when mice had balls in them? turns to dust

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I was just thinking this the other day. I also remember that you had to open the mouse to clean it because the little internal rollers got tangled in grossness.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (4 children)

And the balls in the mice at school would get thrown around the room/lost/stolen until the computer teachers glued them shut so you couldn't clean the rollers and it was almost impossible to use them

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

They had that softness that made them feel harmless, but their weight was unmistakably dangerous.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

"Coaxial mouse old" isn't a thing, gramps. I hate to tell you, but the senility's kicking in...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It was to hook up cable TV to a TV that only had UHF/VHF.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I'm no-keyboard-and-mouse-connector-at-all-because-keyboard-is-built-into-the-computer-and-mice-aren't-a-thing old.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

My Apple ][ Plus was like that.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Apparently some of us are older than even the corpse....no mouse gang here.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (3 children)

8088 represent. 640kb should be enough for everyone.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (12 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

DIN-5 was a dope connector. No bent pins, stuck in there sturdy, you could rotate it until you got it with no guessing, no wimpy cable breaking off.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bottom picture isn't even that old

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

RS-232 was what PCs used and its from 1960.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

I had to put my HDD in park position manually.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Member when you edited your ~~himem.sys~~ config.sys and autoexec.bat to play your game?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Remember when you had to navigate through DOS to start your game?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I don’t think I’m on the chart. First computer was a RadioShack TRS-80. 4 kb of RAM, but I upgraded to a blazing 8 kb. Yee-haw! No floppy discs: my programs were saved on cassette tape using a cassette recorder connected to the computer. Those were the days.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Let's be real, usb-a is ancient now.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (6 children)

In my day, the keyboard was the computer!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm a musician and I send Midi all over the place pretty regularly. 5 pin DIN connectors are very much still a thing.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

So mid 30s = Crypt Keeper

Got it.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

This meme is already outdated, we have USB c now.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My first PC was a 286. Learned to program on it

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I feel personally offended by naaaaah, jk, I’m just gonna say that the first pc my dad bought was a Commodore 64 and he let me play some games on it 🥰

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Older. The C64 was my second computer. Or the third, if I count in the one I built myself, too.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

White and red live on in the audio world, but yellow is definitely in retirement now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

... Parallel port ...

My age exceeds that of the universe!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

ZX81 owner checking in. No mouse and Bearley a keyboard. What did I win

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

My first system was an Altair 8800.

For input it used physical switches on the front panel.

And until I got expansions for it, it didn't even have any ports on the back.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Apparently, I'm dead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Raise your hand if this looks familiar…

LOAD “*” ,8,1

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Trust me people who use multiple monitors LOVE the VGA cable because it's +1 monitor on what usually would be only 1 HDMI slot, maybe 2 if you were lucky.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (6 children)

That’s serial not VGA right?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Vic20 -> C64 -> Atari 2600 -> Amiga 500 -> 286 ... I actually don't even remember but it has a shitton of cores.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

this meme and the fashion world at large agree that I am a decrepit hag at 30 years old

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