wow.. my refrigerator has more memory than that... im in the system administrator class at school and im currently learning dos and stuff.. so i cna move onto .. linux. so much hsa changed i rember using the old dual floppy drive mac computers in 1st grade

Oh man, you wanna hear a sad story.... I bought a USED Kaypro in '85 for $1300. Of course it came with the latest dot matrix printer ().

Oh man, what would that be, inflation adjusted?

**edit** I just went to the handy-dandy inflation calculator

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

and they say $1300 in '85 would be $2387 now. Jeez, if I'd put that in Microsoft stock instead...

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

I remember those too. They also had those neat green-only screens

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Seth

1984 300D 225K
1985 300D Donor body
1985 300D Turbo 165K. Totaled. Donor Engine. It runs!!!
1980 300SD 311K My New Baby.
1979 BMW 633csi 62K+++? Dead odo

Commodor(sp?) 64 rocks. Got me through college. Upgraded to a 128 and I thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.

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Sent from an agnostic abacus

2014 C250 21,XXX my new DD ** 2013 GLK 350 18,000 Wife's new DD**

- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Anyone remember those hard drive stacks which looked like a bunch of records in a clear water cooler barrel?

Apple IIe baby!

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

Those sound like Honeywell disk units that were used in a lot of data centers in the '80s. They had a big twist handle on top for easy removal. I recall telling people that music will someday be stored and played via magnetic disks, and they thought I was nuts!

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1985 380SE Blue/Blue - 230,000 miles
2012 Subaru Forester 5-speed
2005 Toyota Sienna
2004 Chrysler Sebring convertible
1999 Toyota Tacoma

All prices in Canadian $ and to the best of my memory

1983 - IBM PCjr w/color monitor & printer $3100
1984 - 300 baud modem $300
1987 - Miniscribe 60MB (yes, meg not gig!) hard drive $600
1988 - Everex 2400 baud modem $450

Also remember friends & relatives paying over $2500 for computer systems (including monitor & printer) such as:
-Texas Instruments TI99/4A
-Commodore 64
-Apple IIc
-Timex Sinclair (can't remember the model, but it had a membrane keyboard)

How times have changed... All of the above computers had 128MB of RAM or less. Now that's too small for an MP3 player that fits on your keyring!

Neal

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'83 300SD 335,000km (207k) mi SOLD
'87 560SL 163,000km (101k mi) SOLD
'86 300SDL 356,000km (220k mi) SOLD
'92 500SEL 250,000km (155k mi) SOLD
'90 300SL 140,000km (87k mi) SOLD
'01 S430 260,000km (161k mi) SOLD
'03 SL500 167,000km (104k mi) SOLD
'07 S550 4MATIC 235,000km (146k mi) SOLD
'07 GL320 CDI 4MATIC 348,000km (215k mi)
'13 GL350 BlueTec 4MATIC 170,000km (105k mi)
'14 SL550 72,000km (43k mi)

I worked at two data centers back in the early 80's that had those...Ampex removable drives. One stack of platters was good for 470MB!! WOW!!

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

Tandy 1000 with cassette tape OS loading

In 1983 (4?) I was the first doctoral candidate to write his comprehensive exams on a computer. Had a Sanyo with Wordstar and 2 floppy drives They had to find a closet in the basement of the library where I could bring in my computer and set it up.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

TRS-80 fo' life!

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1989 300E 144K

ive seen a picture of a harddrive the size of a sandbox.. standard size sandbox.. and it held a whopping 600 megs or something.. i was like that has to be a photoshop.. but no it was real.. id like to go back in time with the latest ipod and take the harddrive out and show the people that made that giant harddrive what we have now..

how many bits does that little thing store.. hahah mearly nothing compared to our gigantic harddrive.. 600 megs ha you are nothing boy

meh mine only holds 30 gigs. i knew i should of spent that extra 100 for the 60 gig model

whaaaaaaaaaaa????

Wow, and I remember when I started out in my current job, I had to use a manual Royal typewriter, with inked fabric ribbon (that you rewound and used again). My journeymen used stone tablets and chisels!

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Mike Tangas
'73 280SEL 4.5 (9/72)- RIP
Only 8,173 units built from 5/71 thru 11/72

'02 CLK320 Cabriolet - wifey's mid-life crisis

2012 VW Jetta Sportwagon TDI...at least its a diesel

Non illegitemae carborundum.

My Zenith laptop from work had a 20MB hard disk. That would fill up in about 3 seconds nowadays.

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1985 380SE Blue/Blue - 230,000 miles
2012 Subaru Forester 5-speed
2005 Toyota Sienna
2004 Chrysler Sebring convertible
1999 Toyota Tacoma