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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @Nic
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      @Nic said:

      Well this was in the early days of computers. But yeah, save early, save often 🙂

      The Amiga wasn't made until the second or third generation of computers, and that was the very first Amigas in 1987. By that time people not saving was already an old joke. The Amiga was a full decade into the home computer era. Popular television was making fun of people who didn't save documents on Growing Pains by 1985 and that means it was well into the social conscious already by that point or their audience would not have understood the joke.

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      • JaredBuschJ
        JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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        @Nic said:

        Well this was in the early days of computers. But yeah, save early, save often 🙂

        @scottalanmiller

        The Amiga wasn't made until the second or third generation of computers, and that was the very first Amigas in 1987. By that time people not saving was already an old joke. The Amiga was a full decade into the home computer era. Popular television was making fun of people who didn't save documents on Growing Pains by 1985 and that means it was well into the social conscious already by that point or their audience would not have understood the joke.

        No it was not. You are missing perspective on this. Computers were not even common yet. Yes, it may have had a joke made on a TV show, but computer simply were not common. The joke in that show would have been lost on almost the entire audience.

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        • NicN
          Nic
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          This was in Australia, so we didn't have Growing Pains 🙂

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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            @JaredBusch said:

            @Nic said:

            Well this was in the early days of computers. But yeah, save early, save often 🙂

            @scottalanmiller

            The Amiga wasn't made until the second or third generation of computers, and that was the very first Amigas in 1987. By that time people not saving was already an old joke. The Amiga was a full decade into the home computer era. Popular television was making fun of people who didn't save documents on Growing Pains by 1985 and that means it was well into the social conscious already by that point or their audience would not have understood the joke.

            No it was not. You are missing perspective on this. Computers were not even common yet. Yes, it may have had a joke made on a TV show, but computer simply were not common. The joke in that show would have been lost on almost the entire audience.

            They were commonish in homes but very common in schools, businesses, libraries, etc. The whole "programming in school" movement had already come and gone by this point. The Mac was on like its third or fourth release. The Commodore 64 era, the best selling computer of all time, had come and gone as had nearly the entire Commodore 128 and Commodore 16 eras. The Apple ][ was effectively gone (the Apple ][ GS would still exist, but that was the waning of that and a very different thing.)

            Computers were very much in the social consciousness by this point. Sure, most of us didn't have them at home yet (I didn't until just this point) but people had had access to and awareness of computer basics for a very long time.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @Nic
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              @Nic said:

              This was in Australia, so we didn't have Growing Pains 🙂

              Now that's just sad.

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              • StrongBadS
                StrongBad
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                Growing Pains was a classic! Too bad there is no good way to watch it anymore. Although Kirk Cameron going all crazy towards the end kind of ruined the memory of that show for a lot of people.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
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                  And Who's the Boss, that show was great.

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                  • garak0410G
                    garak0410
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                    Two Words: Guru Meditation

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @garak0410
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                      @garak0410 said:

                      Two Words: Guru Meditation

                      I still think of BSODs as Guru Meditation Errors!!! So funny.

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                      • garak0410G
                        garak0410 @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        @garak0410 said:

                        Two Words: Guru Meditation

                        I still think of BSODs as Guru Meditation Errors!!! So funny.

                        GURU's always gave you meditation time before showing up...the power light would flash for 3-5 seconds as everything froze and then gave you the GURU...I know in OS 3x (or maybe it was 2x) they took out GURU but it was still the same...I think in 3x they actually had a recoverable one...

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
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                          I never used the 3.x series. Not actually sure that I ever used the 2.x series. I remember updating from 1.1 to 1.2.

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                          • StrongBadS
                            StrongBad
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                            Remember needing both a Kickstart disk AND an OS disk? What a pain.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
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                              It took forever to boot those up with needing to read two entire 880KB floppies before the system was ready to go.

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                              • garak0410G
                                garak0410 @StrongBad
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                                @StrongBad said:

                                Remember needing both a Kickstart disk AND an OS disk? What a pain.

                                On the Amiga 1000...yes. 😞

                                I do remember replacing my ROM on my Amiga 2000 my myself for the first time...went from 1.3 to 2x...

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