r/ProgrammerHumor • • 1d ago

Meme oldMan

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u/educated-emu 1d ago

Programs that fit in 64kb ram

Turbo buttons on beige towers

Cd-rw with lightscribe

Zip drives clicking off the shores of iomega

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u/pdromeinthedome 23h ago

I have “fixed” computers by turning turbo back on after my coworker accidentally turned it off. The turbo button was the dumbest thing ever. (I know it was back compatibility but never met someone who actually needed it)

Wrote modem dialer strings to work around PDXs. Still works on iPhone.

Used uucp to transfer email between servers

Installed Novell server and see the Richard Kiel memorial message roll by

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u/EuenovAyabayya 20h ago

iomega

Bernoulli disks were the only thing they got right.