Fun Times!
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Carolyn Wheeler said: Boy, do I ever remember those!! They were the days of infancy. I must say, I sure do like the way we handle sources today. What an improvement!! We have come a long way for sure!!!0
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Adrian Bruce said: But they're 3 1/2 inch floppies! Modern stuff!0
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Gordon Collett said: I don't think PAF for Mac ever came on the 5 1/4" disks, did it? And prior to PAF I was strictly pen and paper.0
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Adrian Bruce said: I have no idea about PAF on 5 1/4" for anything - I was just making a general comment. But I also started with PAF albeit for Windows. I printed out the entire help file and read it - I still think that was the most profitable genealogy read I ever made.0
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S. said: lol I even Remember stuff like that. Have fun Cleaning, by safe, and stay healthy during these trying times. Have a gr8 day.0
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Cary Holmquist said: Oh, yeah! I remember these from 1989, when I got my first personal computer, mostly for doing family history research. I would go to the Family History Library with my Macintosh SE--mostly portable, a little larger than a gallon jug of rootbeer--which barely fit in the space between the microfilm reader and desk divider. It had hardly any RAM memory and so I would have to reload the PAF from floppy disk every time I restarted the computer--and all the data had to be copied over to a separate floppy disk. Seems like a lot of effort now, but it was better than keeping track of all the notebooks and paper that I had been using to hold all the information I was gleaning from microfilm of Swedish parish records. Thanks for bringing back the memories. I have long since lost that computer and all the disks, graduating my systems to about a year or two behind the state-of-the-art consumer Apple products.0