Quoth Wyvern:
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Almost makes me want to start a thread on the number of computers in each of our posters' households and what battles take place over who gets to use it!
What a difference from 20 years ago!
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Okay, sounds like a topic for a post!
First, 20 years ago: I remember my elementary school letting students check out the Commodore CBM or PET computers for the weekend, along with a box of games. Between my mother, my brother, and I, there wasn't a whole lot of sleeping going on -- everyone got the computer for an hour. And since each game had to be loaded separately from tape or (if you got the good one!) floppy, there were no saved games.
I remember when I got my Commodore C-64 -- 64 whole k of memory! Life was good, and drinks were cheap.
Today: Two active computers in our house (three if you count my company laptop). The adult computer and the kids computer, where I don't care if I have to reformat the hard drive entirely. On my computer, I care...
Recently got rid of the old C-64. My grandfather's machine shop uses software that runs on one of those, so I donated it back to the family. Picked up another one at a neighbor's garage sale, for the whopping price of free -- they couldn't imagine someone actually using one of them (and neither can I, really).
Got two or three other machines (old slow ones) laying around that will eventually turn into servers or something similar (perhaps another kids computer -- they fight over that one now!)
Next?