TGIF: A trip down memory lane January 30, 2009
Posted by Jill (@bonnjill) in Fun stuff, TGIF.trackback
Here are two ads from Compaq Computer Corporation featuring John Cleese from the mid to late 1980s. I can’t get over Compaq’s idea of a portable computer. Ah, that brings back memories. Remember how we used to have to boot from a floppy? What? You’ve never heard of a floppy? Oh you kids these days… I think my dad still has some if you want one. Lord knows he can’t use them with his new computer, which doesn’t even have a diskette drive :-). Enjoy!
Musings from an overworked translator 
How funny to remember those times! It never ceases to amaze and entertain my 12 year old daughter to hear about the lack of technology that I had while growing up. We had a Commodor 64 at home, and my brother and I would fight over who got to play ping pong. Shoot, I remember the first digital watches and how cool they were!
Diskettes? Man, that would have been the ultimate luxury on my C64! I had Datasette, which used audio tapes to store and of course access was linear so you actually had to fast forward or rewind to get to the data you needed – the floppy drive was as much as the computer, around 500 DM if I recall correctly!