Friends 1995 - Chandler's "awesomely" slow laptop

Chandler: "Check out this awesome laptop. 12 megs of RAM; 500 megs of
hard drive; and 28 kilobits per second modem."

karl...

I get a laugh out of 80's shows that have people using cell phones the size
of a small piece of luggage.

Ronnie...

Speaking of Friends, I recently saw a bit of that 1997 film "Romy &
Michelle's High School Reunion," and there's a bit with Mira Sorvino
trying to show off her "wealth" by toting around a walkie-talkie
sized cellphone. Ha. Sure didn't take long for that subplot to date
itself....

One thing I like to do is see how long it takes to guess the era of a show
from the backgrounds. Cars are usually the biggest giveaway. Landline phones
are another. Rotary dials? How quaint. Rockford's answer phone? How cute.

Another meta-puzzler is distinguishing the era the show was made in versus
the era it is portraying.

I've always thought Happy Days said more about the 70's than the 50's/early
60's and That 70's show says more about the turn of the millennium teens
than the 70's.

Speaking of a time warp: Anyone remember Room 222? I recall seeing it in
the early 70's but it never seems to have made it to syndication.

Jude Cormier...

It was reran on USA during the late 80s and again when TV Land first started
up.

(laughs)

Boy that really shows the age of this show. My computer's RAM is

=?iso-8859-1?B?TVVMTElORVKZ?=...

I think he uses it for games and stuff.

Josh Hutcherson...

lol I love the Zack Morris (Saved By The Bell) cell phone he use to
carry around in the shows first season. lol Like the size of a brick w/
a walkie-talkie antenna attached to the end of it.

videonovels...

That was ME that said "600,000 megs" simply to be consistent with
Chandler's "500 meg harddrive" measurement terminology.

And yes I "know" computers what with designing computer devices at my
daily job. Whether I say 110 centimeters or 1.1 meters... makes no
difference. It's the same measurement.

videonovels...

I just double-checked with comcast cable. Their highst speed is "up to
a blazing 6 Mbps!" No where near 128 or 512 mbps, so it is YOU who
"sounds like don't know what you're talking about".