Category: So Laugh Already
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
LOL: Engadget 1985.
One day in the future we'll all work at 200MHz tower desktops with 9600 baud modems, but until then we'll just have to keep dreaming.
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I know this is just going to make me look like the biggest idiot in the history of the world, but what size are the desktops and modems nowadays so I can compare and get the joke like everyone else?
Today when you buy a Pentium 4 from Dell, it typically runs at around 3000MHz.
For comparison, the computer I was running in 1985 (Tandy 1000 in the HIZZOUSE!!!) had a blazing speed of 4MHz.
And modems... does anyone even use modems anymore? They top out at 56,000 "baud" and have stayed there for a decade. My modem in 1985 was a 300 baud speed demon.
And I should mention -- even if all the MHz and baud stuff is gobbledygook to you -- click through to the story anyway and take a look at the pictures of the mobile phones and GPS units. You'll get the joke :-)
Gee, Jason, I guess it really wasn't that long ago when you first got onto Compuserve.....I remember the ole T-1000 and all the Sierra games...
My god! Sierra, there's a blast from the past...
Games were better back when they came on nine floppy disks ;-)
I still have a copy of "3D Ultra Pinball 'Creep Night'" on my desk.