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That Robot
Sep 16, 2004

ask me anything about robots
Buglord

genesplicer posted:

I used to carry that exact model years ago. It was my third organizer. It's in a box out in my garage, along with the two earlier models and the several more that came later. I loved those damned things.



I paid a hell of a lot more than $2.99 for it, that's for sure.

gene splicer, hello!

what was your first pc?

also, i know they had standalone word processors in the 80. did you ever use one?

That Robot fucked around with this message at 09:26 on Sep 10, 2016

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MiracleWhale
Jun 30, 2015


lol if you did not type your phd dissertation on word perfect 5.1

proof of concept
Mar 6, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
There's actually a decent market for outdated stuff like this populated by people who are working a government job or on a government contract and who can only legally use technology that's on some approved tech list that hasn't been updated in over a decade and probably won't get updated before the sun explodes. These are the people who, for example, have to seek out laptops that have a PCMCIA card slot so they can get a 56k modem to put in it because they're allowed to do remote work from hotel rooms over dialup but not ethernet or wifi and they just have to toe that line. There isn't like an epidemic of this or anything, but it's pretty standard bureaucrat behavior to go with the "ain't broke, don't fix it" approach instead of put themselves at risk of being the person who approved some new policy that turns into an information security disaster, so it's not at all unheard of either.

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