Ditto on the punch cards….though remember where ditto comes from? (The name of the machine that made the copies.) While I’m glad we have moved on to photo copies from Xeroxs, I miss Kodak moments.

That would be “Locke and Key”. There’s a TV show, yes. But the comic is better.

Do you live in a cave??

I still got a working MC-10 and a CoCo 3 with an all powerful 300 baud modem upstairs. I’m half tempted to hook those things up and start coding in BASIC again with all the staying in house I have to do.

Don’t worry, Sheila. I remember when “floppy disk” was accurate, too. I’ve also encountered punch cards (though I never had to work with them).

Well, damn, now I feel old … my frist PC was a 386 with added co-processor and an 85 MB Harddrive.
And that was my .. hmm … 4th digital machine ?
I don’t really count the Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 as PC’s, since they were so different.
Nor do I consider my digital watch, nor the old Philips Odyssey 2001 a computer in any way,, shape or form .. though they were digital – And the Odyssey 2001 was the beginning of the “beige plastic” trend.

hehe, I know what you mean. First box I built was a Pentium II 333MHz with 16MB ram. Don’t remember the HDD size, but it was less than 500MB. Now PCs struggle with multi-core 3+Ghz and 16GB ram.