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Written by LabSpokane on 2025-01-17 at 19:31

Just had to explain what a DEC VAX was to a millennial.

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Written by evan on 2025-01-17 at 22:27

@LabSpokane

I can't blame my fellow millennials for not knowing, but it's a real shame that they don't.

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Written by LabSpokane on 2025-01-17 at 22:33

@IrrationalMethod It was a fun trip down memory lane and realizing that a huge stack of platters held 40MB.

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Written by evan on 2025-01-17 at 23:06

@LabSpokane

A fair bit of my day job is explaining to fellow millennials and younger folks that storage in computers used to be extremely expensive and that's the root cause of the arbitrary limit or naming convention that they are now banging their head against.

Then I get to explain technical debt, usually by sharing the Richard Scarry dictionary meme.

(Edited to add: working specifically with hydrologic models, thus this hits especially hard)

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Written by Oliver Jensen on 2025-01-18 at 18:21

@IrrationalMethod @LabSpokane because I love this, here is a better quality image for anyone else who intends to use it

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