{"id":1697,"date":"2008-06-04T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2009-08-06T14:23:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T18:23:13","slug":"new-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1697","title":{"rendered":"“New” Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bought several Spider-Man posters around the time I graduated from high school. (1990) These posters graced the walls of my bedroom at my parent’s house, then the walls of what passed for my living room as a bachelor, and finally wound up on the walls of my home office. The posters are now old enough to graduate from high school themselves. <\/p>\n

The time finally came to put them to rest. My love for ol’ web-head remains undiminished, but the posters had become wrinkled and torn over the years. (Although, they hadn’t faded, since the light of the sun rarely reaches this place.) My father-in-law provided the perfect replacement: Vintage computer science posters from his early days of teaching. (He’s retiring this year.)<\/p>\n

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They’re laminated, so they’re in better condition than my Spider-Posters, despite them being over a decade older. I apologize for the low quality of these shots. The lighting in here is ideal for monitors, but hell on photography. <\/p>\n

Read on to see the rest:<\/p>\n

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This is a history of the personal computer, which begins in 3,000 BC and ends<\/em> in 1977.<\/p>\n

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The parts of a personal computer: Screen, Keyboard, Printer, Phone, and Tape Recorder.<\/p>\n

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I threw away the last of my floppies in 1999. People had been predicting the death of the floppy for nigh on a decade by that point. In the end, nothing really killed them, they just died<\/em>. It wasn’t until USB drives and those flash memory thingdings that we really had reliable portable storage again. <\/p>\n

I have a little memory card in my phone that’s smaller than a thumbprint and holds two gig. You would need 5,405 of the above-pictured 5.25″ floppies to hold that much data. And probably a wheelbarrow. <\/p>\n

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The dead tongues of computer science.<\/p>\n

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Sorry. Maybe I should have warned you first. Bill here is on the back of the door so I don’t see him very often. I keep him there because the reaction I get from visitors is priceless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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