I remember I had an acquaintance back then who excitedly told me, one day, "I'm beta testing for Stacker!" I said, "Yeah, you do that. Good luck with that..."
THe price of wood
Dec 01, 2004
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It was Stac.
todd
My standard comment in such situations has been, for rather a long time now, "Yeah, 'cuz what could _possibly_ go wrong?".
32 MB IIRC.
I saw one of those things the other day. What do you bet half the people, maybe even 75% or even 90% of the people who have home computers today have no clue what a "full sized card" is?
I ran into that with someone in some context or other. I don't remember the surrounding details, but his definition of a "full sized card" was one where the PCB came all the way to the end of the edge connector.
it's been a while since I've had a card that came to the "front" of the case and had to be supported there. last one was a sound card, IIRC...
Snip ......
started on the walk down "memory" lane (pun intended). I remember when ALL cards were full-length. I read a piece about a computer museum on aliceandbill.com and blathered on about all the ones they missed ... I don't need to do that again this week.
Perhaps when this embedded controller programming job finishes up, I'll make some sawdust. After I clear the electronics crap out of the shop!
Regards,
Rick
BTW, bought a USB "thumb drive" yesterday ... 128 MB ... 'bout as big as the old drive _connector_ ... capacity is greater than what my first FOUR computers combined had ... for $16.00.
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