Comments on: Summer Projects

By: Lacy

Lacy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:09:10 +0000

You’re prolly right ’bout that. And theme music. Must have theme music!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:13:18 +0000

Okay, I hear you all loud and clear. Friday’s comic is going to be about zip drives!

Nate: The newer computers in the student union had flat screens by ‘03. Other than the Macs, I think that the in-dorm computers were all CRTs through then at least. It did not make moving them fun ;-)

Sean Et Cetera: They’re hefty enough that you could probably make some neat art out of them. Or maybe build a small shack.

Lacy: I bet half of the files are character sheet PDFs ;-)

By: Lacy

Lacy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:24:29 +0000

I think I’m disturbed to realize I probably still have my zip drive somewhere…

By: Sean Et Cetera

Sean Et Cetera — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:39:59 +0000

Don’t you worry; we still have all the zip disks that came with each Dell computer (two per!) and are saving them for when that medium comes back into style.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:53:14 +0000

I don’t think that they upgraded the lab computers to OS X until after I left in 2003.

I was in an odd spot with the Zip discs. When I was in computer animation, they were too small for me to store anything, and then I switched to creative writing, where a 3.5 floppy was more than enough space.

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:35:17 +0000

OMG… all those CRT’s… *shudder* :D

By: Diana

Diana — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:48:19 +0000

By 2001, the Macs were running OS 9, I believe. They hadn’t upgraded the lab computers to OS X yet.

When I first started really using the computer labs at BGSU in 1994 or 1995, I think they were running 7.5.1 on the pizza-box Macs. Good times.

Oh, and I still have the dozen Zip disks I used at school — but I was a VCT student, with a fair amount of media to work on for class. Kind of funny, now — all those Zip disks would fit on a teeny thumb drive now, for the price of one of those damn 100MB disks.