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It's actually really fun to see it play so well, and then think back to those times, wonder what would have been possible, what people might say

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The catch being the storage solutions employed here would have been impossible to imagine back then. But, perhaps just a 3-5 second video (like some of the gifs on the site) could have made the rounds. Even then they probably wouldn't have fit on a disk! Storage was so tough back then.

Yeah, totally. It was. I myself remember my first 10 megabyte hard card. I had stuffed it into some 8086 PC to run a CAD program. Prior to that, anything over a floppy seemed huge!

Funny, I had a flash back to a high school chat. Friend had picked up on digital music. Sampling was a thing we all heard about and the chat was no noise, perfect music one can carry around on chips...

Seemed like sci-fi. We were using Apple 2 computers, some with a half megabyte of RAM. A CD held so much information!

It all just happened. Fairly quick too.

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