MS Dos is 30
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God I am getting old, who remembers spending hours getting programs to run in extended memory?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
DOS 3.31 was my first experience. I would whizz around the disk quite merrily, using the short cuts, writing batch files, using the echo command to annoy my colleagues who knew nothing about computers.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
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I remember spending longer getting the sound card, mouse driver and HIMEM / EMM386 working enough to fit the game into memory than I did actually playing the game! Except Doom, of course. I bought a new computer for that. Ah! Multiboot in DOS didn't half save on floppies... :-D
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
oh the joys of lotus 123, dataease, multimate and wordperfect Dataease was my favorite after spending 3 days figuring out the problem was that dataease was alowing duplicate unque keys! doom was so much later (the best network stress tool ever invented)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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I remember spending longer getting the sound card, mouse driver and HIMEM / EMM386 working enough to fit the game into memory than I did actually playing the game! Except Doom, of course. I bought a new computer for that. Ah! Multiboot in DOS didn't half save on floppies... :-D
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Got to say that the IBM was excellent. And very sturdy, especially the keyboard. We did the upgrade from twin floppies to a 20Mb hard drive. Wow! 20 whole megs! I was in Silicon Heaven. :)
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
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God I am getting old, who remembers spending hours getting programs to run in extended memory?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Mine was a 1640[^] - but I added an 32MB HDD card. I thought it was brilliant! We once started a Mandelbrot diagram zoom in and went off down the pub to let it finish...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Got to say that the IBM was excellent. And very sturdy, especially the keyboard. We did the upgrade from twin floppies to a 20Mb hard drive. Wow! 20 whole megs! I was in Silicon Heaven. :)
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
And wasn't the HDD expensive! :omg: My 32MB was £400!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Got to say that the IBM was excellent. And very sturdy, especially the keyboard. We did the upgrade from twin floppies to a 20Mb hard drive. Wow! 20 whole megs! I was in Silicon Heaven. :)
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
the orginal IBM keyboards would break a foot if you dropped them we went from twin 5 1/4 to twin 3.5 to a 10mg hd with 640k the to ps2's 286 a far better machine
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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O/S 2 Warp - I still have that loaded on my wife's PC. THAT was a real O.S., before Win 95. Had it running 7/24/365 for years on 30+ machines (386, 486SX, and finally blazingly fast 486-66), never rebooting except when the cleaning people pulled the power. Got to dump the CP/M, dual floppy in a wooden box (Zenith I think) PC for software development when DOS came out. The C IDE interface was simple, looked something like this,
c:\
and it fit on a floppy:
Gary
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God I am getting old, who remembers spending hours getting programs to run in extended memory?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
I do, damn it!
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
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God I am getting old, who remembers spending hours getting programs to run in extended memory?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
I started out on CP/M[^] before moving onto IBM PC's; remember it was IBM compatible not MS or Intel. I was talking to Eldest last night about computers and she asked how many I had had. Bought myself, only 11 I could remember, but double that for work machines. At one point I had a Psion 5[^] which was synced with my Libretto 100[^]. That was connected to my desktop in the office. I had tow servers, one for development/testing and one for linking into the London office. Add to this a cash box for testing teller cash dispenser software and small test ATM. That, my friends, was cubical heaven.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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God I am getting old, who remembers spending hours getting programs to run in extended memory?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
I started off with Good old Win 98 SE but then again I used to be awed at my friend's Intel 486 with DOS.
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I started out on CP/M[^] before moving onto IBM PC's; remember it was IBM compatible not MS or Intel. I was talking to Eldest last night about computers and she asked how many I had had. Bought myself, only 11 I could remember, but double that for work machines. At one point I had a Psion 5[^] which was synced with my Libretto 100[^]. That was connected to my desktop in the office. I had tow servers, one for development/testing and one for linking into the London office. Add to this a cash box for testing teller cash dispenser software and small test ATM. That, my friends, was cubical heaven.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
. Me too!
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
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God I am getting old, who remembers spending hours getting programs to run in extended memory?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
I still use DOS :)
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God I am getting old, who remembers spending hours getting programs to run in extended memory?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
Or waiting for the new version to come out to see what new goodies lied there in.
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Or waiting for the new version to come out to see what new goodies lied there in.
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Mike Hankey wrote:
Or waiting for the new version to come out to see what new goodies lied there in.
oh there was a lot of that going on iirc still i remember getting a copy of MSDOS 6 oh how green were those forced to have 6.2 with its inferior disk compression (smerk)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Mike Hankey wrote:
Or waiting for the new version to come out to see what new goodies lied there in.
oh there was a lot of that going on iirc still i remember getting a copy of MSDOS 6 oh how green were those forced to have 6.2 with its inferior disk compression (smerk)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
And with every version you got a manual...printed on real paper that was actually helpful. That was the last form of help that was actually worth a s**t.
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God I am getting old, who remembers spending hours getting programs to run in extended memory?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
I think I spent about 6 hours on it total over the half dozen years i had my 486. 2 or 3 finding a clue before setting up all the choices I needed on a boot menu; then it was just a case of IDing the programs that wouldn't run in my standard config and if they needed me to boot EMS, XMS, or max under 640k modes.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius
