no cheating

  • MeanEYE@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Unless you had pocket PC or PDA you never needed to touch it. And those were expensive business toys back in the day.

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      5 months ago

      When I was a kid I scored a Compaq iPaq for cheap on eBay. I even got the expansion pack for it that slid over the device with a dial up modem. When we would travel away from home, I could get on MSN messenger and chat with friends on there. I thought that was pretty cool at the time.

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        5 months ago

        Oh. Same. I had HP iPaq and loved that thing. Used it as smart phone and had a dumb phone next to it. I was so proud of my setup.

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        5 months ago

        This is a year or two before USB. Windows 98 was the first with built in USB support.

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          I was using briefcase in 2001 or so. You probably could have used it with a zip drive or superdisk before that. But

          I hated floppies. I lost so much data on them. They were very unreliable. I actually lost an internship because a floppy failed when I was trying to use it. Rather than blaming the person who was stupid enough to rely on a floppy as the SOLE location of that info, they blamed me. It held AutoCAD drawings that were going in and out of a machine shop. I’m still bitter.

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            5 months ago

            You’re a better person than they ever were. Just remember that you’ll never blame an innocent intern for the mistakes of others.