Windows 95, They don't make them like this anymore
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den2k88 wrote:
I started with Dos 6.22
Thanks for making me feel old.
Me too - I started with C/PM
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Windows 95, They don't make them like this anymore[^] I started using pc with windows 98. But after watching this I am installing windows 95 to see what did I miss.
Ah, I have fond memories of Win95... Laughing at all the script kiddies on IRC, sending me ICMPs on port 139, hurling their nukes against my firewall... Ahh, the good old days...
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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Me too - I started with C/PM
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Me too, my first PC was an Amstrad with a 5 or 10 MB HDD (I can't remember for sure) and a 5"floppy. It ran Dos 3.0, C/PM and Gem. I wrote my own solitaire suite, which had a dozen or so games, in Locomotive Basic. Pip, Pip!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Windows 95, They don't make them like this anymore[^] I started using pc with windows 98. But after watching this I am installing windows 95 to see what did I miss.
Windows 95 sucked! I skipped it. I only went to Windows 98 because I really wanted to use Photoshop.
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PC's from DOS 1.0 and 'puters waayyy before that.
veni bibi saltavi
Wow, DOS 1.0. That's a while back. I started out around DOS 3.3. Do you remember when DOS 5.0 came out? Big deal with all that himem.sys configuring extended memory and all. Remember editing config.sys and autoexec.bat? Those were(n't) the days weren't they? :D edlin was cryptically cool. if you could use that you were cool. :)
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Me too, my first PC was an Amstrad with a 5 or 10 MB HDD (I can't remember for sure) and a 5"floppy. It ran Dos 3.0, C/PM and Gem. I wrote my own solitaire suite, which had a dozen or so games, in Locomotive Basic. Pip, Pip!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
My first "proper" home machine (other than ZX81 and Spectrum) was an Amstrad PCW8512 with twin 3" floppies, CP/M, Mallard Basic and Locoscript word processing. L loved that machine! My first pc based machine was an Amstrad PC1640 with twin 3.5" floppies and DOS 3.0 - I added a 10Mb HDD card, which cost me £250 on Tottenham Court Road in London. It's still in my loft somewhere, and probably has not been booted up for 20 years! In work we were using ICL DRS300 and Comart machines running CCP/M (the multi-user version of CP/M). Our first PC architecture machine was an Apricot PC which was not fully PC compatible. We then got a Wang, followed by an IBM PC/AT which had a 20Mb hard disk.
========================================================= I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka. =========================================================
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My first "proper" home machine (other than ZX81 and Spectrum) was an Amstrad PCW8512 with twin 3" floppies, CP/M, Mallard Basic and Locoscript word processing. L loved that machine! My first pc based machine was an Amstrad PC1640 with twin 3.5" floppies and DOS 3.0 - I added a 10Mb HDD card, which cost me £250 on Tottenham Court Road in London. It's still in my loft somewhere, and probably has not been booted up for 20 years! In work we were using ICL DRS300 and Comart machines running CCP/M (the multi-user version of CP/M). Our first PC architecture machine was an Apricot PC which was not fully PC compatible. We then got a Wang, followed by an IBM PC/AT which had a 20Mb hard disk.
========================================================= I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka. =========================================================
Yep, PC1640 was mine too, but we got it with the HDD included. You might be right about 3.5s, in which case I added a 5" myself. We had some PCW8512s at uni, would you believe to enter code for cross compilation for single-board computers that we had built ourselves. The computers were to control little robots that were driven by old floppy stepper motors. The robots each had an infra-red sensor and "paddles" operating micro-switches to detect collisions and we had to program them to find their way around a simple maze. Fun times!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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den2k88 wrote:
I started with Dos 6.22
Thanks for making me feel old.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Thanks for making me feel old.
The arthritis and the daily cholesterol tablets weren't helping with that already? ;P
Regards, Nish
Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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Windows 95, They don't make them like this anymore[^] I started using pc with windows 98. But after watching this I am installing windows 95 to see what did I miss.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Thanks for making me feel old.
The arthritis and the daily cholesterol tablets weren't helping with that already? ;P
Regards, Nish
Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
You're thinking of the grunting that accompanies trying to tie shoelaces.
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PC's from DOS 1.0 and 'puters waayyy before that.
veni bibi saltavi
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
PC's from DOS 1.0 and 'puters waayyy before that.
I used DOS on an IBM mainframe in the days when I was richer and more famous than Bill Gates. And nobody had heard of the term "personal computer".
I'm retired. There's a nap for that... - Harvey
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Windows 95, They don't make them like this anymore[^] I started using pc with windows 98. But after watching this I am installing windows 95 to see what did I miss.
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Wow, DOS 1.0. That's a while back. I started out around DOS 3.3. Do you remember when DOS 5.0 came out? Big deal with all that himem.sys configuring extended memory and all. Remember editing config.sys and autoexec.bat? Those were(n't) the days weren't they? :D edlin was cryptically cool. if you could use that you were cool. :)
newton.saber wrote:
Big deal with all that himem.sys configuring extended memory and all.
Yeah, but nobody needed it.
newton.saber wrote:
Remember editing config.sys and autoexec.bat?
You still can, and what you put in them is still loaded. Am I alone in finding that scary?
newton.saber wrote:
edlin was cryptically cool
... And was finally removed in Weven -- i.e. it was still there in XP! (But don't worry; Weven still has things like doskey, xcopy, and find -- remember writing doskey macros?)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
