• Neuromancer
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    913 days ago

    I will date myself. These machines had a lot of memory as well which added to the slow reboot. I think it was 16 gigs.

    The r series for IBM took forever. The p series was faster but was still slow

    • @trolololol
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      213 days ago

      I’ll date myself. My first PC had 500MB of STORAGE

        • @trolololol
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          110 days ago

          I had a friend with one of those while I had an Atari. The Atari game would come up within a minute, but the tape took like 15 min to start.

          • Neuromancer
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            -110 days ago

            Using a tape drive is crazy when you think about it. It was slow…. This wasn’t the big tape cartridges. It was a standard Audio tape. Not sure why they could store but it was all sequential

            • @trolololol
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              110 days ago

              Never ask an engineer why lol

              Source: am engineer

              • Neuromancer
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                -310 days ago

                Meant that as what about they could store.

                Why I know. Go play it and you’ll see how they did it.

                I am curious who said. You know am audio take will create a great experience.