Reminds me of the heatsink that came with my first PC back in 1997 (I think), had an Intel Pentium 233 Mhz with MMX (think that was all hype)...I actually remember that the fan on that heatsink died at one point and I went to CompUSA (anyone remember that place?) to get a new one as this is during the primordial days of the internet....that PC came with 32 MB of EDO RAM, a 4.3GB HDD, 56.6K modem, a creative soundblaster AWE64 sound card, and I believe it at an ATI videocard with 4MB of VRAM...oh yeah, and a 1x CR-RW and since it was 1x speed, that mean that the length of time required to write an audio CD was equivalent to the duration of the CD itself, so if it had 74 minutes worth of music, it took 74 minutes to write....I tell you, kids that were born into the era of ubiquitous broadband don't know how spoiled they are as during the days of dialup I remember I'd considerit it a "good day" if my actual download rate was ≈4.5KB/s, about 40 minutes to download a 3 minute mp3 which I had to obtain by logging onto unpublicized servers (you could only get the address if you were "in the know") on IRC....hell, I remember I downloaded a bootleg of the Matrix when it first debuted in theaters and it took multiple days to download via FTP....anyone remember IRC, Warez or FTP downloads?

Posted on Jul 9th 2018, 12:54 Reply