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Vintage (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

And having to pick your IRQ when installing anything into your machine, and the weird bugs that could happen if you mucked it up.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I remember manually programming the cylinders and heads on a hdd into the bios. Kids these days got it easy

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[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 1 point 1 year ago

And when the bits feel off the end and you had to wind them back on with a pencil.

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