Before USB everything was incompatible with everything else.

I remember MPU-401, Zip and Jaz drives, RS-232, Centronics, 5.25" floppy disks, Turtle Beach Sound Cards, DOS, SCSI, and quite a few other things long tossed in the recycle bin.

My old Atari/ST had an external 40M hard drive. They called it a Winchester. It was huge, bigger than the box new computers come in. When started up, you could hear it whirring as it took about a minute to reach speed before it would work. But having 40M of RAM was a dream in those days.

I remember when programs came out in floppy disks because CDROM hadn't been invented yet, and when you backed up your computer you needed a stack of floppies.

I also remember when BiaB came in DOS.5, Atari, and Mac (Motorola CPU) versions with only 4 instruments, 24 built in styles, no user styles, no shots, no holds, and no endings.

A lot of things got better and easier to use.

I hadn't thought about those things for years, thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Notes

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