{"id":2682,"date":"2016-03-14T13:27:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T04:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2016-03-14\/2682"},"modified":"2016-03-14T13:27:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T04:27:43","slug":"30-pounds-of-microsoft-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2016-03-14\/2682","title":{"rendered":"30 Pounds of Microsoft Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM Macro — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>160 sec, f<\/span>\/3, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n30 Pounds of Software<\/span>\nMicrosoft Office, Circa 1994\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

Going through some closets in our childhood home, my sister came across some software she\nbought fresh out of college. It's a blast<\/span> from the 22-years-ago past, when software came\nwith massive<\/i> manuals.<\/p>\n\n

In this case, the box weighs 30 pounds (14kg), and the manuals are 9\" (23cm) wide.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM Macro — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/3.2, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nFloppies. 31 Floppies.<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM Macro — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>250 sec, f<\/span>\/3.3, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n“<\/span>Disk Format: High Density (1.44 MB)<\/span>”<\/span><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM Macro — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>250 sec, f<\/span>\/3, ISO 5000 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nA Few<\/span> Manuals<\/span>\nof very many\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM Macro — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>250 sec, f<\/span>\/3.2, ISO 5600 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n“<\/span>Micro Electronics”<\/span>?<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

This was back when “<\/span>Windows™”<\/span> was just “<\/span>Windows™”<\/span> (it was a year<\/span> or two before\n“<\/span>Windows 95<\/span>™”<\/span>). She paid about<\/span> $500 for it, in 1994 dollars no less.<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM Macro — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/3.2, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nSide of the Box<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM Macro — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>250 sec, f<\/span>\/3.2, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nBack<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM Macro — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>250 sec, f<\/span>\/3, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nOther Side<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Going through some closets in our childhood home, my sister came across some software she bought fresh out of college. It's a blast from the 22-years-ago past, when software came with massive manuals.<\/p>

In this case, the box weighs 30 pounds (14kg), and the manuals are 9\" (23cm) wide.<\/p>

This was back when \"Windows™\" was just \"Windows™\" (it was a year or two before \"Windows 95™\"). She paid about $500 for it, in 1994 dollars no less.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}