It had no mouse or hard drive, 512K of main memory and two floppy drives.

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The school had no floppy drives and the students could not afford memory sticks.

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Plus: videocassette players, portable video recorders, the now-ubiquitous Walkman and 3.5-inch floppy disk drives, launched in 1980.

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We had dot-matrix printers, and floppy disk drives and cassette tape players strewn across every desk in our house.

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Windows 1.0 only required a minimum of 256 kilobytes (KB), two double-sided floppy disk drives, and a graphics adapter card.

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And there are many game developers today who first tinkered and programmed on this device using BASIC code, tape drives and floppy discs.

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They considered everything from computer hard drives to obsolete floppy discs, and x-ray films to microchips on credit cards.

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