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2008-05-10 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john frum 2008-05-10 06:11|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
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#1 CD-ROMs?

In 1993?

Seems like I was just getting my first ZIP drive back then, don't remember too many CDs.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-05-10 07:35|| 2008-05-10 07:35|| Front Page Top

#2 According to wikipedia, the CD-R and CD-RW support had matured and were available for mass-market in 1988.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-05-10 08:13|| 2008-05-10 08:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Getting old, big jim.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-05-10 08:19|| 2008-05-10 08:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Guess so.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-05-10 08:38|| 2008-05-10 08:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Seems like I was just getting my first ZIP drive back then, don't remember too many CDs.

That's because back then, they were ten bucks a CDR, not ten bucks for 50.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2008-05-10 14:01|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-05-10 14:01|| Front Page Top

#6 At least you had a ZIP drive. All we had was perforated paper, and we were damn glad to have it too.

Posted by George Smiley 2008-05-10 18:07|| 2008-05-10 18:07|| Front Page Top

#7 At least you had paper...

Posted by Pappy 2008-05-10 18:32|| 2008-05-10 18:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Seriously, that's gonna tarnish her carefully nurtured image in the West.

Posted by Pappy 2008-05-10 18:37|| 2008-05-10 18:37|| Front Page Top

#9 perhaps she was wooed personally by Kimmy. What woman could resist?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-05-10 18:44|| 2008-05-10 18:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Are we sure it's anything approaching the truth?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-05-10 20:25|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-05-10 20:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Fond memories, Mr. Smiley. Tape the ends of the perf paper together into an 'endless' supply of data and write a little program to go get a bit of data just before the endless loop protection screen on the IBM 360/370 kicks your job off and you could lock up the computer all night long.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-05-10 23:43|| 2008-05-10 23:43|| Front Page Top

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