Amiga Memories
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That reminds me of a funny story. I never had an Amiga, but friend of mine did. His sister was writing a paper and had spent all weekend on it without saving at all. Of course the computer froze up. They called me over and I was able to escape to shell prompt. I wrote a little script to page through the entire memory searching for English words so that we could find her writing and copy it down. After running for 12 hours it found where the paper was located and I was able to see the text. I wrote up another little script to print out that section of memory to the printer. Unfortunately the printer driver wasn't loaded in memory by default. It went to the drive to grab the printer driver - and guess what section of memory it loaded it into? Yep, right where the paper was. In retrospect I should have had her write it down by hand.
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@Nic Twelve hours? How long would rewriting the paper have taken?!?
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She'd spent all weekend on it, so most likely longer. Plus that was overnight, so she was sleeping
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Was this for her PhD?
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Nah, was for some college paper.
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@Nic said:
Nah, was for some college paper.
I made it all the way through undergrad and grad school and never had a paper over two hours, most were minutes!
Really sad when college students don't think to save papers. That should be an F right there!!
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Well this was in the early days of computers. But yeah, save early, save often
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@Nic said:
Well this was in the early days of computers. But yeah, save early, save often
The Amiga wasn't made until the second or third generation of computers, and that was the very first Amigas in 1987. By that time people not saving was already an old joke. The Amiga was a full decade into the home computer era. Popular television was making fun of people who didn't save documents on Growing Pains by 1985 and that means it was well into the social conscious already by that point or their audience would not have understood the joke.
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@Nic said:
Well this was in the early days of computers. But yeah, save early, save often
The Amiga wasn't made until the second or third generation of computers, and that was the very first Amigas in 1987. By that time people not saving was already an old joke. The Amiga was a full decade into the home computer era. Popular television was making fun of people who didn't save documents on Growing Pains by 1985 and that means it was well into the social conscious already by that point or their audience would not have understood the joke.
No it was not. You are missing perspective on this. Computers were not even common yet. Yes, it may have had a joke made on a TV show, but computer simply were not common. The joke in that show would have been lost on almost the entire audience.
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This was in Australia, so we didn't have Growing Pains
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@JaredBusch said:
@Nic said:
Well this was in the early days of computers. But yeah, save early, save often
The Amiga wasn't made until the second or third generation of computers, and that was the very first Amigas in 1987. By that time people not saving was already an old joke. The Amiga was a full decade into the home computer era. Popular television was making fun of people who didn't save documents on Growing Pains by 1985 and that means it was well into the social conscious already by that point or their audience would not have understood the joke.
No it was not. You are missing perspective on this. Computers were not even common yet. Yes, it may have had a joke made on a TV show, but computer simply were not common. The joke in that show would have been lost on almost the entire audience.
They were commonish in homes but very common in schools, businesses, libraries, etc. The whole "programming in school" movement had already come and gone by this point. The Mac was on like its third or fourth release. The Commodore 64 era, the best selling computer of all time, had come and gone as had nearly the entire Commodore 128 and Commodore 16 eras. The Apple ][ was effectively gone (the Apple ][ GS would still exist, but that was the waning of that and a very different thing.)
Computers were very much in the social consciousness by this point. Sure, most of us didn't have them at home yet (I didn't until just this point) but people had had access to and awareness of computer basics for a very long time.
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Growing Pains was a classic! Too bad there is no good way to watch it anymore. Although Kirk Cameron going all crazy towards the end kind of ruined the memory of that show for a lot of people.
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And Who's the Boss, that show was great.
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Two Words: Guru Meditation
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@garak0410 said:
Two Words: Guru Meditation
I still think of BSODs as Guru Meditation Errors!!! So funny.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@garak0410 said:
Two Words: Guru Meditation
I still think of BSODs as Guru Meditation Errors!!! So funny.
GURU's always gave you meditation time before showing up...the power light would flash for 3-5 seconds as everything froze and then gave you the GURU...I know in OS 3x (or maybe it was 2x) they took out GURU but it was still the same...I think in 3x they actually had a recoverable one...
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I never used the 3.x series. Not actually sure that I ever used the 2.x series. I remember updating from 1.1 to 1.2.
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Remember needing both a Kickstart disk AND an OS disk? What a pain.
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It took forever to boot those up with needing to read two entire 880KB floppies before the system was ready to go.
