[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Windows 1.0 (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 11/22/2011 3:31:34 PM EDT
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Quoted: Anyone old enough to remember this?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL4hyATkQ74&feature=feedrec_grec_indexLOL, is that really an ad from the '80s? Would have made me a Mac user for life after seeing that! |
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Quoted: Desqview FTW! I still own an "I love DOS" bumper sticker I got from PC Magazine, back in the day. Still in my filing cabinet, never been applied. I held out with DESQview until the bitter end. Once Windows 95 came out, I knew it was time. But God damnit, I kept the fuckin' faith.
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Quoted: I ran DESQview on an 8088, with all of 640k of RAM (most of which was installed on an 8-bit ISA card). I ran a BBS this way. You had to page the SysOp (me) when you wanted to download something, because I had to physically put the floppy in the drive, so you could have it. I was too poor to own an MFM or RLL hard drive, at that point. Quoted: Desqview FTW! Damn, you're old. Wait a minute - I'm old, because I know what that is and used it myself.  |
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Quoted: Quoted: Computers have been all downhill since DOS 5.0 You must enjoy writing batch files and having different ones to run different programs.  I still write batch files to this day, in 2011. DOS, as an operating system, sucks ass. But I cut my teeth on it, and I actually look down on IT guys who didn't.
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Computers have been all downhill since DOS 5.0 You must enjoy writing batch files and having different ones to run different programs. It made me feel smart! device=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS Config.sys wasn't a batch file, but it was the source of much win. I miss ANSI graphics. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Computers have been all downhill since DOS 5.0 You must enjoy writing batch files and having different ones to run different programs. I still write batch files to this day, in 2011. DOS, as an operating system, sucks ass. But I cut my teeth on it, and I actually look down on IT guys who didn't. Lol. I am intervierwing for a new tech now, and half of these guys were in diapers as DOS was ending it's life and a command line is a scary thing you have to use when the shiny buttons won't work. The other half of these guys last touched a server when FORTRAN was king and stepped out of day to day when punch cards were phasing out to reel to reel. Who to hire... 
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He hasn't changed much, believe it or not. Developers! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! Yeah, the screaming monkey dance will never die However, he's also the direct go/no-go vote on the project that is my bread and butter right now, so that makes him my new best friend. 
ETA: Freeing up high memory via Config.sys to play Wing Commander or Ultima was a goddamn art form. Kids today with their fancy consoles and high-end PCs.. |
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Computers have been all downhill since DOS 5.0 You must enjoy writing batch files and having different ones to run different programs. I still write batch files to this day, in 2011. DOS, as an operating system, sucks ass. But I cut my teeth on it, and I actually look down on IT guys who didn't. Lol. I am intervierwing for a new tech now, and half of these guys were in diapers as DOS was ending it's life and a command line is a scary thing you have to use when the shiny buttons won't work. The other half of these guys last touched a server when FORTRAN was king and stepped out of day to day when punch cards were phasing out to reel to reel. Who to hire... I'm a hobbyist (PC Gamer) instead of a professional IT guy, but I started with Commodore 64 command lines (LOAD "*",8,1, bitches.) I moved on to DOS, a few different DOS shells, but never touched Windows until 3.1 had been out for a little while. I can't fathom an IT person who isn't comfortable with a command line. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Wasn't that the first of a series of barely functional Microsoft Software? Masquerading as a GUI? This one ran on top of dos. You booted into dos, and then ran the command to start windows ('win' if I recall correctly). You recall correctly, provided that win.exe was in your PATH env variable. Most folks at the time had it that way, and included win.exe in their autoexec.bat. Poor bastards.
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Is that a low level format? I'm not an IT guy, but I seem to remember that. We all wrote batch files and BASIC programs 25-30 years ago, whether we were systems folks or just users. |
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Quoted: Pfffftt. I started with a dual floppy (no HD) IBM with DOS 2.1 on a 5.25" floppy. DOS commands only. The first computer I owned was a VIC-20. 5kb of RAM. Learned to program in BASIC on TRS-80 Model IIIs in my junior year of HS, 1984-85. When I got a Mac Plus in 1987 I was smokin' with 1 meg of RAM and a single 3.5" 800k floppy drive. |
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Is that a low level format? I'm not an IT guy, but I seem to remember that. We all wrote batch files and BASIC programs 25-30 years ago, whether we were systems folks or just users. I was always partial to G=FFFF:0000
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Is that a low level format? I'm not an IT guy, but I seem to remember that. We all wrote batch files and BASIC programs 25-30 years ago, whether we were systems folks or just users. You justed looked that up 
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My first computer was the Hyperion: http://oldcomputers.net/hyperion.html A Canadian computer! [insert bag & boil jokes here] Custom OS - PCDOS 1.25H. It was almost IBM compatible |
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I ran DESQview on an 8088, with all of 640k of RAM (most of which was installed on an 8-bit ISA card). I ran a BBS this way. You had to page the SysOp (me) when you wanted to download something, because I had to physically put the floppy in the drive, so you could have it. I was too poor to own an MFM or RLL hard drive, at that point.
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Desqview FTW! Damn, you're old. Wait a minute - I'm old, because I know what that is and used it myself. I bet half the It guys now don't have a clue what a BBS was. I still have to use DOS on a rare occasion when working on a BASIC PLC card. I boot from a flash drive wiith 6.22 on it 
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Computers have been all downhill since DOS 5.0 You must enjoy writing batch files and having different ones to run different programs. I still write batch files to this day, in 2011. DOS, as an operating system, sucks ass. But I cut my teeth on it, and I actually look down on IT guys who didn't. Amen. If someone describes themselves as a sysadmin, ask them about batch files / scripting. If they can't do it, they ain't no kind of sysadmin. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I ran DESQview on an 8088, with all of 640k of RAM (most of which was installed on an 8-bit ISA card). I ran a BBS this way. You had to page the SysOp (me) when you wanted to download something, because I had to physically put the floppy in the drive, so you could have it. I was too poor to own an MFM or RLL hard drive, at that point. Quoted: Desqview FTW! Damn, you're old. Wait a minute - I'm old, because I know what that is and used it myself. I bet half the It guys now don't have a clue what a BBS was. I still have to use DOS on a rare occasion when working on a BASIC PLC card. I boot from a flash drive wiith 6.22 on it I still have backup disks from my BBS(es). I ran a very popular black hat distro board in the midwest, and was a FidoNet coordinator. Cut my teeth on RBBS, but soon moved to the "1337" stuff. Obv/2 was the shit!! If you're an old SysOp too, you have GOT TO CHECKOUT "THE BBS DOCUMENTARY". Get it. Find it. Watch it. NOW.  You will smile and laugh through the whole fucking thing. It's PURE WIN for those of us who lived it. |
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Quoted: "640K ought to be enough for anybody" Quoted: I ran DESQview on an 8088, with all of 640k of RAM (most of which was installed on an 8-bit ISA card). I ran a BBS this way. You had to page the SysOp (me) when you wanted to download something, because I had to physically put the floppy in the drive, so you could have it. I was too poor to own an MFM or RLL hard drive, at that point. Quoted: Desqview FTW! Damn, you're old. Wait a minute - I'm old, because I know what that is and used it myself. |