Originally Posted by
Bah Humbug
We had a home computer when I was born in 1982. I remember when it got upgraded from dual 5.25" floppies to one and a hard drive... 8 meg possibly? Before that you had to use a boot floppy that loaded DOS 3.1 into RAM and then you could use it. Good times.
Internet came later of course, on a state-of-the-art 386.
I took a programming course in ‘86 while at U. Penn. I remember those 5.25 floppies. They were prone to crashing. Constantly had to back them up.