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Looking for a screaming VS 2012 machine
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30/10/2013 10:20:17
 
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I wonder how to proceed, I want Obamacare on punch cards or punch tape. If that's not possible, I want it on 8" single sided floppies, the DSDD 1.2MB type.

>This still makes me laugh.
>
>http://www.theonion.com/search/?q=obamacare+on+floppy+disks
>
>>Just a thought - Just imagine if we still a 8" floppies and you had to order VS 2012 on them.
>>It would cause a bit of a stir when a semi pulls up to make the delivery.
>>Just imagine getting to disk 2258 during an install and finding that it was faulty.
>>
>>>>Wasn't Turbo Pascal the real groundbreaker from Borland?
>>>
>>>Yep - bought it for my CP/M system. Compile and link in one operation. Small enough to fit on a single 240K 8" floppy, with space left over for your programs. So you didn't have to swap disks between your user files and the compiler/linker.
>>>
>>>A friend had a copy of Microsoft Pascal for CP/M, which came on multiple floppies for both the compile and link steps. You had to swap floppies a bunch of times to compile and link. And it was brutally slow compared to Turbo Pascal.
>>>
>>>Those were the days when advances from month to month could yield near orders-of-magnitude improvements in productivity and performance. They truly were "revolutionary".
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