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  • D dan sh

    Dos days are gone now. No I do not need to be ancient as it existed until Vista from what I recall.

    "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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    Rick York
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    Check out the Q&A from the last week or so. There is someone in there doing development in MS-DOS and can't seem to be able to find various pieces of software that will work with it. Apparently he found a functional floppy disk drive though.

    "They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

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    • J Johnny J

      Are you old ancient enough to find this funny?[^] :~

      Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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      Winston Churchill, 1944
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      Mike Hankey
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      Guilty

      I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!

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      • A Amarnath S

        Also, an autorun.inf file on a CD.

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        Richard Deeming
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        What is this newfangled "CD" of which you speak? Is it anything like a 5¼" floppy? :-D


        "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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          What is this newfangled "CD" of which you speak? Is it anything like a 5¼" floppy? :-D


          "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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          Johnny J
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          Richard Deeming wrote:

          5¼" floppy

          Huh! Nothing! Back in my days, we used 8" floppy disks! AND we had cold gravel for dinner! :laugh:

          Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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          Mark Twain

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          • J Johnny J

            Richard Deeming wrote:

            5¼" floppy

            Huh! Nothing! Back in my days, we used 8" floppy disks! AND we had cold gravel for dinner! :laugh:

            Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
            Anonymous
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            The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
            Winston Churchill, 1944
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            Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
            Mark Twain

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            Richard Deeming
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            Luxury! We used to dream of having cold gravel for dinner! :-D


            "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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            • J Johnny J

              Are you old ancient enough to find this funny?[^] :~

              Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
              Anonymous
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              The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
              Winston Churchill, 1944
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              Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
              Mark Twain

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              scottgp
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              Sadly, I chuckled. :)

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              • J Johnny J

                Are you old ancient enough to find this funny?[^] :~

                Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                Anonymous
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                The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                Winston Churchill, 1944
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                Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
                Mark Twain

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                dandy72
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                I'm old enough to remember seeing the original "[Lee Iacocca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee\_Iacocca) is an autoexec" being used in signatures. (for a timeframe reference, he retired in 1992).

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                • J Johnny J

                  Are you old ancient enough to find this funny?[^] :~

                  Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                  Anonymous
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                  The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                  Winston Churchill, 1944
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                  Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
                  Mark Twain

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                  Leng Vang
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                  That's not funny. We used to make a living with those little knowledge. :^)

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                  • J Johnny J

                    Are you old ancient enough to find this funny?[^] :~

                    Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                    Anonymous
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                    The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                    Winston Churchill, 1944
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                    Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
                    Mark Twain

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                    Gary R Wheeler
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                    Double fun for me since (1) I'm old enough to get the joke and (2) my house is old, so we get bats inside(*) late every summer. (*) They sneak in via our screened-in porch. I get to catch them and release them outside, usually at 2:00 a.m. after being woke up by SWMBO.

                    Software Zen: delete this;

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                    • J Johnny J

                      Are you old ancient enough to find this funny?[^] :~

                      Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                      Anonymous
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                      The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                      Winston Churchill, 1944
                      -----
                      Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
                      Mark Twain

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                      theoldfool
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                      young whippersnapper... I remember cold start cards.

                      If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.

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                      • L Lost User

                        640K ought to be enough for anybody.

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                        Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
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                        Urban Cricket wrote:

                        640K ought to be enough for anybody.

                        FTFY

                        "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018

                        "It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox

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                        • L Lost User

                          :D Where is config.sys?

                          Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                          Mark_Wallace
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                          Eddy Vluggen wrote:

                          Where is config.sys?

                          Hey! You'a say'a da tings about'a da config'a my systa, an you pay'a da price!

                          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                          • J Johnny J

                            Are you old ancient enough to find this funny?[^] :~

                            Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                            Anonymous
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                            The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                            Winston Churchill, 1944
                            -----
                            Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
                            Mark Twain

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                            Super Lloyd
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                            Yes! :laugh:

                            A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!

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                            • L Lost User

                              640K ought to be enough for anybody.

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                              Mario Luis
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                              Memmaker ftw. Used to hate fighting for memory and trying to run my mouse driver same time.

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                                Double fun for me since (1) I'm old enough to get the joke and (2) my house is old, so we get bats inside(*) late every summer. (*) They sneak in via our screened-in porch. I get to catch them and release them outside, usually at 2:00 a.m. after being woke up by SWMBO.

                                Software Zen: delete this;

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                                Johnny J
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                                Cool - I love bats. But at 2 am I guess you have other plans... :laugh:

                                Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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                                The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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                                Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
                                Mark Twain

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                                • J Johnny J

                                  Richard Deeming wrote:

                                  5¼" floppy

                                  Huh! Nothing! Back in my days, we used 8" floppy disks! AND we had cold gravel for dinner! :laugh:

                                  Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                                  Anonymous
                                  -----
                                  The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                                  Winston Churchill, 1944
                                  -----
                                  Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
                                  Mark Twain

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                                  User 11230442
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                                  in 83 I had a cpm system running at 4Mhz with an 8" floppy, But also a 10 MEGA BYTE external hard drive, with removable platters. Luxury. The rest of the system was crap. Filled up my car if I took it home to work. Ah. The good old days. ASM all the way.

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                                    in 83 I had a cpm system running at 4Mhz with an 8" floppy, But also a 10 MEGA BYTE external hard drive, with removable platters. Luxury. The rest of the system was crap. Filled up my car if I took it home to work. Ah. The good old days. ASM all the way.

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                                    JohnDG52
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                                    Floppy? I had a teletype with punched tape.

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                                      What is this newfangled "CD" of which you speak? Is it anything like a 5¼" floppy? :-D


                                      "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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                                      ZerqTheMad
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                                      At least we no longer have to worry about kinky hard drives that insist on a master slave relationships...

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                                      • J JohnDG52

                                        Floppy? I had a teletype with punched tape.

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                                        kalberts
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                                        I learned my first BASIC using one of those - located in the school's bomb shelter: Huge room with concrete walls, floor and ceiling. Just the right acoustics for a TTY! Down in my basement, I have still got a few of those paper tapes. (I also got a small pile of punch cards. As well as a core dump, in the physical sense: A frame with 1152 ferrite rings weaved together. I have no idea about the contents of those 1152 bits.)

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                                        • J JohnDG52

                                          Floppy? I had a teletype with punched tape.

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                                          CodeZombie62
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                                          We had three teletypes in high school. Connected to a PDP-8 and PDP-12 at the university across town via acoustic coupler. One day someone dumped the hopper full of the holes from the punched tape all over the floor.

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