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  1. Watched an episode of Knight Rider on one of the antenna channels today, they added 5000 megabits of data to KITT as an upgrade.  A whopping 625MB!  And Jason Bateman was a kid in it.

    1. Keatah

      Keatah

      Back in those days you could do a lot with 625MB. No bullshit bloat from 100MB browsers, no ads, no windows 10, no MAME bloat. It was all real active code that DID something!

    2. Amstari

      Amstari

      Haha! Reminds me how Johnny Mnemonic had 80GB data storage in his brain. That was huge in 1995!

    3. patroclus99

      patroclus99

      Yes, which explains why Devon needed that tractor-trailer rig, because they needed to hook KITT up to an IBM 3084 mainframe, which transferred the updates vis-a-vis a 9600 beee-brrrr-brrrrt .... beeeeeeee 8-N-1 modem, which also explains why that rig had a kick-ass sleeper-cab complete with a Betamax and a minibar, because a gargantuan 625MB update might take forrrr-evvvv-er.

       

      Incidentally, that red WHIRRRL-a-whir thingy on top of the hood was actually a prototype de-multiplexing IR-port receiver which kind of sped things up.

       

      I'm not making this up!

       

       

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