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I still have some (similiar) of those seen in the video!

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Adding video to channels (British) - requested by ant.

486? Pshhh.. I got by on my 286 until 1999. It only had a 40 megachip cabinet (that is, if I broke it up into two 20 megachip cabinets).

have to admit, I like the juggler analogy to RAM

It's funny that you say times have changed though. The fundamentals really haven't changed. the types of RAM and the types of storage, and the types of processors have changed, but you still need RAM, you still need storage, you still need a processor and they still interact in fundamentally the same way.

What's depressing though is that the average person's response to trying to learn some of those fundamentals is still the same as this woman's reactions in 1996. I am so familiar with the same kind of facial expressions on my users as that woman gave.

I remember buying a 4 megabyte chip for my Macintosh Quadra 630 in 1995 when it came down to $140.

In 1996 I bought a 166 MHz MMX computer with 8 MB ram, 1.2 GB harddrive and Command & Conquer and Warcraft 2. It was glorious!

I remember buying my Pentium 90 (8 MB RAM) and being told that a 1 GB hard drive would be bigger than I'd ever need. No one could ever fill a 1 GB hard drive they told me.

I had C&C: Tiberian Dawn on my 486 DX2/66, but it couldn't handle the later levels.

My progression was.....
Commodore 64 (1983),
Atari520ST (1987),
Atari 1040ST (1987), (Hard drive!)
IBM PC/AT (1988),
Macintosh 2 (1990),
80486 66DX2, (1992),
Pentium overdrive for the 486DX2 (1995),
Dual Pentium MMX 166 (1996) ,
Pentium-2 333mhz (1998), (Dual voodoo-2)
Pentium-3 800mhz (2000),
Pentium D 2.8gz ( 2006),
Core i7-920 ( 2009),
Core i7-970 (2011).

Lesser machines along the way... a Macintosh SE I cant place on the timeline. My biggest regret was sticking with the Pentium-3 for so long. Wasn't so interested though.

My greatest regret was letting our TI99-4A get destroyed in the great basement flood of 1991. She was already a relic at the time. It was a painful day. We also lost the ColecoVision.

NOOoooo, not the ColecoVision!!??

I know man. They should have just stopped making consoles. It was the best ever.

I like to explain memory vs storage like this:
Memory is just like a person's memory. When that person dies, nobody knows what they were thinking unless they wrote it down.

Being morbid is not just for my amusement, you can also bet it will stick with the person.

While computers operate in essentially the same way now as they did then, and while stupid people are just as stupid now as they were then, what's changed is that you no longer need to know all this stuff. Anything off the shelf is going to be more than capable of handling the things stupid people are looking to do.

http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html for mine!