{"id":959,"date":"2002-02-19T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-19T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=959"},"modified":"2002-02-19T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-19T20:46:00","slug":"old_files_are_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/old_files_are_d\/","title":{"rendered":"old files are dangerous&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from a letter dated january 10, 1994 written to a friend about my then-new computer:<br \/>\n<i>I paid $1578 plus taxes for the one with 4 MB RAM (of course) and the .28 dot pitch non-interlaced SVGA monitor.  Everything is fully upgradeable so at any time I can plug in extra megs or a bigger hard drive.  I haven&#8217;t been away from it since I picked it up so my vision is a little blurry these days.  My Aunt and Uncle got me Lands of Lore:  The Throne of Chaos for Christmas.  They must really love me to get me a $60 computer game.  Its one of those fantasy role-playing games.  I didn&#8217;t know if you would like a copy so I didn&#8217;t include it but if you&#8217;re interested just give me shout and I&#8217;ll send it to you.  Be warned!  It takes up 22 MB on your hard drive and needs 590 K free to run properly.  It&#8217;s addicting too.<\/i><br \/>\nhah!  twenty-two megs for an rpg.  hah, i say!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from a letter dated january 10, 1994 written to a friend about my then-new computer: I paid $1578 plus taxes for the one with 4 MB RAM (of course) and the .28 dot pitch non-interlaced SVGA monitor. Everything is fully upgradeable so at any time I can plug in extra megs or a bigger hard <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/old_files_are_d\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}