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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? 
edlin was cryptically cool. if you could use that you were cool. 
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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!
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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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Actually, you can use it online[^]. What a time to be alive !
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: you can use it online[^].
Very realistic simulation.
I was unable to do anything. 
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Yeah, baby yeah!  
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I started with Dos 6.22 and used Win3.1 only for Solitaire and Word6. Then Win95 came out and it was marvellous - a PC could do THAT? Worthy of byuing a 486 or a freaking Pentium 90!
And the setup procedure, consisting of no less than 27 diskettes, some of those formatted slightly over 2.0 MB to render them not copiable under Windows - except that there were plenty of tools to do that.
As much as I can remember Win95 OSR/2 and Win95 Professional + Plus were the first ones shipped on CDs...
EDIT: for curiosity I wikipediaed the whole story and I wrote a lot of inaccuracies - I was EXTREMELY young and time helped confusing my memory.
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: I started with Dos 6.22
Thanks for making me feel old.
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Me too - I started with C/PM
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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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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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.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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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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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Thanks for making me feel old.
The arthritis and the daily cholesterol tablets weren't helping with that already? 
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You're thinking of the grunting that accompanies trying to tie shoelaces.
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Blocked!
Can't see the page referred to, because of corporate internet policy! If permissible, can this be re-posted somewhere else?
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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...
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Windows 95 sucked! I skipped it. I only went to Windows 98 because I really wanted to use Photoshop.
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9gag? Seriously, wtf!
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I usually remember things better than they were... I can't remember Windows 95 to be that funny though...
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Movie Quote Of The Day
I've come for the woman... and your head.
Which movie?
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Diana
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Carry on... Henry
veni bibi saltavi
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Bring Me the Head of Alfred Garcia.
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Oxford Circus to High Holbourn!
veni bibi saltavi
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