The Norm Classics by Michael Jantze for January 10, 2014

This reminds me of this little ditty by David Pogue, sung to the tune of “Jingle Bells”, which appeared in the December 1996 issue of Macworld magazine:

Nine-tenths of a gig,Biggest ever seen,God, this program’s big—MS Word 15!Comes on ten CDs,And requires—damn!Word is fine, but jeez—60 megs of RAM?!

Oh! Microsoft, Microsoft,Bloatware all the way!I’ve sat here installing WordSince breakfast yesterday!Oh! Microsoft, Microsoft,Moderation, please.Guess you hadn’t noticed:Four-gig drives don’t grow on trees!

I remember with IBM OS/2 with 256 Mb RAM and it screamed.Now you need at least 4 Gb or to get W7 to run.

My desktop calls this one, granpa? My laptop studies this one in history class lol

I have that same computer in my basement. Only machine I have left that runs OS9 and talks to my 11×17 scanner.

I’m still using that machine.

The flash drive on my keychain is 4x bigger than that hard drive.

Hugging her Hardware, darn that sounds slightly SALACIOUS!

I like the original balloons. Let’s me reminisce. :)

The strip is from 1999, so it’s almost ancient history now.

A CRT monitor described as “Sleek” ,not even back in the day,at best they were “Functional” but never “Sleek”.

My first was an “XT”. 1 MB HD, 5" floppy (360KB/720KB), 11" monochrome monitor. It ran CAD programs just fine. AT’s were out then, but I could not afford one, after that came the 286, the 386, 486 then pentium. I still have the XT… in my garage somewhere.