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Commodore VIC20 first, with the cassette deck and memory expansion card. I can’t remember now what size the expansion was, but we couldn’t play some games without it.

My first proper PC was an Advent 486 SX25, with either one or two megabytes of memory on board. My brother convinced our parents that it would be good for school work, but I added a single speed CD reader and a generic sound card to it and got Doom for my birthday.

That became my PC, so I upgraded the RAM to 4MB and the CD drive to a blisteringly fast quad speed! Crazy, I know :o

I’ve actually got it at home at the moment, but don’t know if it works. It was in my parent’s attic when there was a leak near it, so I’ve brought it here to let it dry for a while before I risk doing anything with it :)

Typical, I’ve just spent several hours over the last few days downloading everything manually 😫

Couldn’t agree more. I put a 128GB card into my action camera last night, then remembered that my first computer had a 170MB hard drive. That’s close to a thousand times more storage, and according to t’internet, it’s physically more than two thousand times smaller :o

If it makes you feel any better, I did something just as infuriating a few years ago.

I had set up my home media server, and had finally moved it to my garage with just a power cable and ethernet cable plugged in. Everything was working perfectly, but I needed to check something with the network settings. Being quite new to Linux, I used a remote desktop tool to log in and do everything through a gui.

I accidentally clicked the wrong item in the menu and disconnected the network. I only had a spare ps/2 keyboard and mouse, and as the server was an old computer, it would crash if I plugged a ps/2 device in while it was running*.

The remote desktop stayed open but frozen, mocking me for my obvious mistake and lack of planning, with the remote mouse icon stuck in place on the disconnect menu.

*I can’t remember if that was a ps/2 thing, or something specific to my server, but I didn’t want to risk it

I’ve genuinely seen someone doing something similar.

A group of us went bowling for a friend’s birthday, about 25 years ago, and were having a great time. All of a sudden there was this really loud sort of crashing boom, so loud that everyone instinctively flinched, and we all looked around to see what the noise was.

A few lanes over was a group of young girls in their early teens, and one was standing at the line for her lane holding the bowling ball like a shot put. As she was launching the second ball, staff were running in from all directions to try to stop her.

I might be wrong, but I remember reading that they removed the objectionable content after the fuss that was kicked up.