Originally published at: If Duolingo came out in the eighties, you'd need floppy disks to install it | Boing Boing
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Umm - almost ANYTHING that came out in the 80s would have needed floppies to install, surely?
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“or, you can build it yourself for only 15 dollars” 
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It’s been downhill ever since for M$ Office tho.
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Not everything…
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Brrrrrrr-deeeep! Chkchkhchkchk-weeeeee! Sqrlrlrlrlrlrlrl-weeeeep!
Aaaah, the Before Times. 
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ah the vic-20. where the 20 meant 20k of memory. 
this will irrevocably reveal my age: but that was my first computer. poor little machine.
^ this was not pacman. but it was the best you had.
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The Vic-20 had 5k, if I remember my Adrian Black correctly.
wikipedia implies that it was designed to get rid of 1 Kbit×4 Sram chips that commodore had an excess of. 10 chips would fit.
@jerwin already covered the memory, the 20 was a marketing adjusted nod to the 22 columns.
Snacman (sic?). Had that 
oh interesting! ive spent the last [redacted] thinking otherwise. really wish we could have a c64. the vic20 didn’t have a lot of uses
although, that said, i guess it did help me learn a language. even if it was kind of basic
I remember those days. I also remember the colorful language that would follow when I’d get to disk 17 or 18 and have the install crash. :^(
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Even hardware, most of the time! Got to have those drivers!
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Did y’all catch that in the video? Silver Haze in the coffee shops of Amsterdam. What a weird name for coffee!
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