Thanks to Army Air Corps for the ping!!
Posted on 02/28/2017 7:04:35 PM PST by Leaning Right
Wouldn’t do anything??? There wasn’t hardly anything FOR it to do then.
We had some kind of an IBM typewriter in the late 1960’s that ran with tapes. Seems I remember it was pretty slick, particularly for the applications we were running.
The ladies staffing the hotel data center in "John Wick, Chapter ii" are using Commodore 64s. . . hilarious. . . Watch for it when you see the movie.
Thanks to Army Air Corps for the ping!!
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Dang, I was just checking to see if someone had already pinged you to this thread. . . beat me by one minute.
Flying toasters.
Windows 3.1? I remember Windows 2.0
Now THAT really wouldn't do anything...
It was wonderful following the developments in micro-computers as they advanced at a dizzying pace in those early years. I save just about everything, so I have a huge collection of vintage home computers that I like to plug in and fool around with every once in a while.
In my eyes they are still all amazing devices. And I learned so much from all of them. The thing that I appreciated the most about the standards that Microsoft had a big part in developing... is that it allowed me to put components together from a wide variety of manufacturers and sources to create great computers. I have never owned a computer that ran on a Microsoft Operating System that I haven't put together myself other than laptops. I have put together dozens of computers for family and friends over the years.
I have appreciated every Microsoft OS from the beginning. I had already played with a few GUIs (graphical user interfaces) before Windows became available and didn't really have a great affinity toward them. In the early days GUIs seemed like a waste of processing power.
But windows was able to share data between programs. And in the beginning programs had to have their own drivers for various peripheral devices. So if you might have printer that worked with the Word Perfect word processor program, but not with your Lotus 123 spreadsheet program. Windows solved a lot of issues with this.
I find it humorous when people on forums like this one discuss how horrible various vintage operating systems were. I have loved and appreciated the work that programmers did to create each and every one that I was lucky enough to be able to use. This includes Microsoft Operating Systems, operating systems from various manufacturers, numerous open source operating systems, the overpriced, over-hyped creations from Apple and even the current monstrosity currently known as Windows 10.
Very few have even the slightest appreciation for the talent, the millions of hours and incalculable amount of dollars that have created what we have at our fingertips today. It is incredible even what our phones can now do. Even my cell phone has a dozen sensors, two cameras, several transceivers, incredible processing power and can do more than I will probably ever use it for.
heh heh
CPM was pretty cool!
Sorry about my screwed up formatting, I meant to start with a quote from you.
While we're being silly; I wrote my first code for the "VIC." Don't miss it at all! But it was cheap and available.
LOL How's this? Win98's MS-DOS running under Win10.
I, too, have a few floppies for DOS in my stash. Also still have the original floppies and book and box that came with Symphony which we used a lot for our billing and A/R years ago when it was considered the greatest thing since sliced bread. Kept some of everything so my grandsons can see real evolution.
My first was on one of those little Sinclair things. Wrote a couple of really lame games.
PEEK.
POKE.
I’m an old hand at DOS myself. Before that was also a pretty good basic programmer on Commodore 64-128. Before that I had a TRS 80 and that REALLY couldn’t do a DAMN thing.
I am still running XP and works fine. Win98? I doubt he is havibg a good experience.
Gates unveiled 98 at Comdex Las Vegas and gets a BSOD upon trying to connect a scanner during a plug & play demo.
Back in the day, I ran 98 on a dx4-100 with a footprint under 50mb.
I was part of a rag tag team that broke the IE integration from Win98.
It was called 98lite.
We were doing this around the time MS was being sued by the feds for being a monopoly.
MS said they couldn’t decouple IE from Windows, even as we were doing it.
Cripes, it’s still around. The original developer must have sold it to this place.
http://www.litepc.com/98lite.html
I miss card catalogues! That’s how you found neat stuff by ACCIDENT! You look for one item and stumble across another you never knew existed. That happened to me all the time. The university library I used had two millions items in their catalogue. I found treasures all the time using the card catalogue. Once they went digital it was never the same.
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