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Radio Shack's TRS-80 Model III (media.piefed.social)
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I received one of these from parents when I finished the 8th grade in 1980. I think they got the base model though with 4KB of ram, it was "only" $999. I recorded programs onto a cassette tape. Fun!

An advertisement showing a computer from 1980 with a black and white screen and a keyboard built into the case.
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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Glorious graphics! /s

Inflation calculator says $2500 then is similar to $8000 today.

Funny thing, those floppy drives, 175K x 2. Both together are still a small fraction of a single web page, for many sites in 2026. Multi-megabyte web pages are very common.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I was on a call with a (young) designer who was going to get me a graphic. I said I need in such and such dimensions, jpeg, 75%.

    She said “umm, sorry 75%?”

    I told her I meant the compression, and then she understood. I apologized for saying it, and briefly explained it was just a slip from decades ago and no one seems to care about compression these days.

    I got off the call, felt old, but then angry that people don’t fucking compress shit. 💩

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I think Photoshop still sets compression to something like 85 % (or even lower) as default when you export for web!

    There are lots of new image formats these days that work better for web than JPEG, though.

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