Remember when...

[Spacecadet]

Mice had a grotty little ball in the bottom to track movement

[cailin maith]

Mice had a grotty little ball in the bottom to track movement

Yep and you had to take it out to clear it's belly button fluff.

[EternalOptimist]

and monitors were 3 feet deep and weighed more than an anvil

[DimPrawn]

You could leave your dog outside a shop tied to a post and it would still be there when you got back.

[EternalOptimist]

I havnt got a dog

[DimPrawn]

I havnt got a dog

Me neither.


Thieving bastards!

[RichardCranium]

And you had to set the code page to get the £ and " working properly?

And when the <Alt GR> key appeared from nowhere?

And when everyone had little pads where the pages were entitled "Telephone message" because Post-Its had not yet appeared, but you did not have a 'phone on your desk because only managers, secretaries and people in Sales needed a telephone?

And finally being allowed to go into the print room to collect your own listings from the band printer rather than wait for one of the operators to tear it off and dump it in the "Printouts" tray?

And waiting for someone else's compilation to finish so yours could run? (Yeah, right. Just run it in the print batch queue instead. Bwa-ha-ha-haaa. )

And setting the DIP switches on the modem to toggle 7/8 bit etc.?

And acoustic couplers?

And DimPrawn's dog's white turds on the pavement?

[MarillionFan]

Mice had a grotty little ball in the bottom to track movement

and monitors were 3 feet deep and weighed more than an anvil

Remember! REMEMBER!

I don't need to remember. U should see the tulipe equipment clientco has given me! A DESKTOP FFS!!!!

[RichardCranium]

I remember disk packs that were measured in megabytes, not tens of megabytes, which were top-loaded into a drive the size of a 'fridge.

And reel-to-reel tape drives. And the need to know different sorting algorithms according to the medium holding the data.

And the benefit of not just drawing a diagonal line across the top of the card deck, but of doing one in another colour in another direction.

Pah. This industry's being going downhill ever since ISAM displaced hashed indexing. The kids today have it too easy.

[EternalOptimist]

remember when you first learned how to swap the buttons around on a mouse, and how you laughed like a drain when the nerd nearly bust a blood vessel