"ZensGreedyFly" <zensgreedyfly@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>I guess I could consider myself an "old schooler" as are most of the others
>here that are trying to help the less experienced brave a new OS.
>
> I suppose listening to the rants of the Vista haters has brought back a
> bit of nostalgia.
>
> Anyone remember these cries of technophobes?
>
> "XP?, why the hell would I need that when 98SE blew away 95?"
>
> "How will I EVER fill up an entire GIGABYTE?"
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> "What the hell do I need a mouse for when I have a keyboard?"
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> ...I could keep going, but I'd love to hear some of you guy's[/color]

Fun topic! :)

I believe it was Bill Gates who said, "No one will ever need more than 64K
of RAM."

My first 20 Meg (that's Meg, not Gig) hard drive (in an original IBM XT):
"Wow, I'll never fill that up!"

My computer with a floppy drive: "Wow, that's so much faster than the
cassette tape!"

My first home computer (a Sinclair ZX80 - 4k of RAM, expanded to 16k): "Wow,
it's a miracle that they can pack so much computing power into such a small
box!"

And . . .

My first interaction with Windows 3.0: "Ugh! Who wants a Graphics User
Interface, anyway? This thing is for idiots. Give me a comman-line
interface any day!"


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