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Teyrnon · 08-02-2009, 08:19 PM

I remember when the Atari 2600 was the coolest toy. I remember 8" floppies, when MacDonalds Happy Meals came in nifty and interesting boxes even some shaped as flying saucers.

In a weird way I sometimes feel nostalgic for the days when I never seemed to have enough hard disk space. Now a days I my drives are typically only half full at any given time. Gone are the clever archiving strategies and shuffling applications around between floppies and hard disks depending on what I needed to do at the time. It was a major part of my computing life for about two decades but in the last decade hard disks are so large that it's hardly an issue. [sigh]

08-02-2009, 08:19 PM	#73
Teyrnon Groupie Posts: 190 Karma: 384 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: South Eastern United States Device: jetBook, Kindle DX, Kindle 3, Kindle Fire, Nook Simple Touch	I remember when the Atari 2600 was the coolest toy. I remember 8" floppies, when MacDonalds Happy Meals came in nifty and interesting boxes even some shaped as flying saucers. In a weird way I sometimes feel nostalgic for the days when I never seemed to have enough hard disk space. Now a days I my drives are typically only half full at any given time. Gone are the clever archiving strategies and shuffling applications around between floppies and hard disks depending on what I needed to do at the time. It was a major part of my computing life for about two decades but in the last decade hard disks are so large that it's hardly an issue. [sigh]