Comparing Today's Computers To 1995's

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Comparing Today's Computers To 1995's

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 23, 2012 @06:46PM from the pentium-80-how-I-miss-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A look back at two articles from 1995, touting high end computers and 'must haves.' How times have changed... ...'Memory (RAM): We seem to have convinced most manufacturers to adopt eight megabytes as standard, compared with four megabytes in 1994. Don't buy less than eight. The difference in performance between an eight megabyte machine and a four-megabyte machine can be dramatic.'"

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yup by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-23 18:55 · Score: 5, Funny

Those were the days....when it took 30 minutes to load a porn site
1. Re:yup by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-23 19:08 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Now the porn is available on demand but it takes 30 minutes to load up my schlong :(
2. Re:yup by PatPending · 2012-02-23 19:21 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  "In my day, we didn't have videos. We got ASCII pinups on 132 column green-bar! That's the way it was, and we liked it! We loved it!"
  
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  What one fool can do, another can. (Ancient Simian Proverb)
3. Re:yup by JosKarith · 2012-02-23 21:54 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Obligatory XKCD reference -
  http://xkcd.com/598/
  
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  'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
Re:Eh by Patch86 · 2012-02-23 19:48 · Score: 5, Funny

You mean you don't know how to use the three seashells?
Re:Eh by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-23 21:20 · Score: 5, Funny

hahahaha "1995: ...handling email, web surfing..."
speak for yourself but i think somewhat less than 90% of the people currently using a computer had access to email or the internet in 1995.
Re:Eh by KiloByte · 2012-02-23 21:36 · Score: 5, Funny

Capabilities have increased by a factor of a thousand or more in several areas.
What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.

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Re:Eh by Zero__Kelvin · 2012-02-24 00:51 · Score: 5, Funny

"Programmers back then knew how to right optimized and reliable code that took full advantage of the hardware."
... and now they don't even know how to right!

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Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun