@tinker There used to be floppy disk dispensers like cola machines.

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Now give us an interactive exhibit so the next generation can enjoy the full experience.

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Wow. Time flies. 1996 was 27 years ago.

In 1996 the equivalent display would be showing objects from 1969.

@tinker that's actually pretty cool :)

@tinker we refer to that as “the good times”

@tinker I went the other way (K6-2 550MHz). Given the state of multiprocessing at the time getting much out of those dual i686 builds was hard.

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The one Librairy we went to had a giant history of transformers.
All original characters were there on display all of them in this giant case. I’ll have to snap a picture to get it next time for everyone it was so cool.

@tinker how old are the people in the picture? How do they feel about having their youthful souls imprisoned in a museum display?

@tinker The last time I used that style of tape was 1992. The last time I used tape was probably 1998 or 1999.

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Now I have to wonder which CRRL branch this is at. Sure, you'll find older electronics pop up on eBay as surplus occasionally and the local arcade has older working electronics than these, but it's still interesting.

Also, the modem mentions that it's an upgrade to an acoustic coupler, which I would imagine would also be on display.

@tinker oh shit a zip disk! Haven't seen those in a while

@tinker why is my childhood/teenage years in a museum display case?

@tinker I was there, Gandalf. I was there 3000 years ago... :afloppy:

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That Zip 250 disk seems a little out of place because I never saw one anywhere outside of an electronics store or catalog.

I used to see the original Zip 100 drives and disks in-use various places, but I think of Zip 250 as a Never-Was product.

Back then I thought Zip drives were going to be the future, but then CD burners took over the market.

@tinker When I first started at Intel, my first job was providing technical support for that exact model of motherboard. (It reached unsupported status soon into my first stint, but still…)

@tinker the far off distant future of 1996 no less 😱​

@tinker ... server for CD ROM tower

@tinker I've heard tell of "floppy disks" and "CD-ROMs"

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I remember an IBM XT standing in the rain. We took it apart and left it to dry on the radiator for a week - it ran

@tinker I am old. 😭

@tinker Now I feel ancient.