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We remember when this was all fields, and lived a furtive life of dial-up modems and dodgy newsgroups. Tell us about how you came to love the internets.

(, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 11:56)
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250?
You young whippersnapper.
(, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 14:46, 2 replies)
In fact
Mine was even a parallel port connection. None of your modern USB.

Jumpers for goalposts. Isn't it? Wasn't it? Marvellous.
(, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 14:48, closed)
Yes...same here...
100mb of parallel speed goodness!
(, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 16:47, closed)
Yeah, 250!
Of course, once the bundled disk ran out, it was back to 100s, as no one saw fit to stock the 250s, what with zip drives being massively unpopular.

EDIT: I built my drive out of elastic bands, blu-tak and paper clips, so nyer.
(, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 14:53, closed)

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