Comments on: Blog Club: Apple Community http://unsympathetic.net/2006/08/18/blog-club-apple-community/ Easily distracted by shiny things. Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:54:34 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jonathan http://unsympathetic.net/2006/08/18/blog-club-apple-community/comment-page-1/#comment-264 Jonathan Sun, 03 Sep 2006 20:31:36 +0000 http://unsympathetic.net/?p=165#comment-264 My best friend had a Commodore 64. It had a 5¼" floppy drive (the one with the flip-down lever to hold the disk in.) We mostly played Pong and some other game where you had to select which house the burglar was going to rob. <geezer-speak>I can't imagine that entertaining today's crop of youngsters.</geezer-speak> Just the other day my friend told me of a machine that used <em>8"</em> disks. Wow. That's like a record encased in a plastic sleeve. How would you transport a behemoth like that? I suppose that's what the cargo pants craze was all about back then. :) My best friend had a Commodore 64. It had a 5¼” floppy drive (the one with the flip-down lever to hold the disk in.) We mostly played Pong and some other game where you had to select which house the burglar was going to rob. <geezer-speak>I can’t imagine that entertaining today’s crop of youngsters.</geezer-speak>

Just the other day my friend told me of a machine that used 8″ disks. Wow. That’s like a record encased in a plastic sleeve. How would you transport a behemoth like that? I suppose that’s what the cargo pants craze was all about back then. :)

]]> By: Hisham http://unsympathetic.net/2006/08/18/blog-club-apple-community/comment-page-1/#comment-263 Hisham Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:25:38 +0000 http://unsympathetic.net/?p=165#comment-263 I have had fond memories of circa-80's computers too. We were in the Commodore camp though. I remember sneaking up on weekends while my elder sister was still sleeping, just to use her 64. I have had fond memories of circa-80’s computers too. We were in the Commodore camp though. I remember sneaking up on weekends while my elder sister was still sleeping, just to use her 64.

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