You just ran out of punch cards

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your computer store can’t supply any more 5 1/4 inch floppy disks

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your 10 MB harddisk starts making rattling noises you never heard before

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your monochrome Hercules monitor starts smoking

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when you try to install windows 3.1 and it complains your system isn’t supported anymore

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When you just broke your coax cable and can’t buy a new one

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when your telecom operator stopped supporting your 2400 baud bulletin board connectivity

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you just bought an update for wordperfect and it tells you that it won’t run on MS Dos 3.3

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You try to buy a new program on a mini-cassette-cartridge but all you can get is cd’s

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your virusscanner won’t get updates anymore since they won’t fit on the diskettes

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You want to buy a math co-processor for your 8088 machine but can’t find one in any store

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your keyboard broke and you can’t get one with this 5-pin DIN connector anywhere

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your computer tells you that march 26 2009 isn’t a valid date

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you’ve run clean out of Borsu 10MB Bernouilly cartridges and no-one has any more for sale

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You can only download working software from sites tagged with ‘abandonware’

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The only organisation offering spare parts is the local computermuseum

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You’ve just set your browser startpage to http://oldversion.com

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you are amazed when you look at all the modern and advanced systems they show you at http://www.old-computers.com

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recently you got addicted to the intricate game of pong

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you just bought a brand new harddisk, but your system bios doesn’t recognize it and when you finally get it to work you find out that fdisk.com and format.com won’t allow you to actually use it…

Cheers…