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dTal on Sept 24, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox

I'm curious what useful work such a computer can perform, given that a typical 1995 computer had a 33 MHz processor, 8 megs of RAM and 1 gigabyte of hard disk space.

Retra on Sept 24, 2016 [–]

The same work they did in 1995. Word processing, games, internet. Computers weren't useless back then.

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