My Fourth Operating System
Dec 6, 2023 16:34:53 #
There are somethings which can really nail age. There was a tv program back in the 50's called Winky Dink and You. It has been called the first interactive program. You got a plastic screen which you placed over the screen and then drew bridges, etc. as needed by the character. In conversations only people born in a narrow window 2yrs?, seem to have ever heard of it. I heard a few years ago they were talking of a remake, but never since.
Dec 6, 2023 17:11:46 #
JBRIII wrote:
Absolutely agree. Problem is most people don't even know what you're talking about. Bat files can be great for doing mass things like renaming or copying thousands of files to new names. Use excel to create command list and save as bat file.
Agree. I am still using “.bat” (batch) files daily… with copy, xcopy, Robocopy, etc commands in them. I run backup batch files after significant changes and I have backup batch files, on multiple PCs, set up to run automatically at night.
I use M$ PowerToys rename often, but not is a batch. I like the visual indication of what the changes will be, BEFORE I press the go button
Dec 6, 2023 17:31:29 #
[quote=Linda From Maine]Yep, '98 was my fourth operating system...and I'm not as old as many on UHH 
Yes - had it at work - why I have a MAC at home.
Yes - had it at work - why I have a MAC at home.
Dec 6, 2023 17:42:14 #
Red6 wrote:
The first computer used was in college, an IBM mainframe programmed with punch cards. After college, it was MS-DOS using my first home computer, an IBM PC Jr. At work, it was MS-DOS using a standard IBM PC.
I have probably used nearly every Microsoft GUI-based OS since MS-DOS. Also used IBM Warp and many of the Apple-based OS in several applications at home or work projects.
I have probably used nearly every Microsoft GUI-based OS since MS-DOS. Also used IBM Warp and many of the Apple-based OS in several applications at home or work projects.
Began in college with an IBM 1130 and then in graduate school with CDC 6600 and a CDC Cyber model. This was followed in post-doc time by the use of an IBM 360 model. Following this was a few years given to a VAX 11/780. Following that came my time with the Commodore 64 (I wrote a word processor and a spreadsheet program for the C64) and onto various PCs.
This journey has taken me from IBM cards, through teletype stations to dumb terminals and now to the computer sitting on my desk or in omy lap. --Richard
Dec 6, 2023 17:44:07 #
profbowman wrote:
Began in college with an IBM 1130 and then in grad... (show quote)
By the way, if anyone yearns terribly for the DoS days or is a LINUX user who is also using Win 11, give the Widiows PowerShell a try. All of the commands are in text. --Richard
Dec 6, 2023 17:55:38 #
AirWalter
Loc: Tipp City, Ohio
BBurns wrote:
There are a bunch of us out here that will know this one.
And there will be some younger up-starts who are clueless.
And there will be some younger up-starts who are clueless.
I started with windows 95. I have had time with all operating systems from windows except windows 8 and 11.
Dec 6, 2023 17:56:48 #
That is old school. With Windows 11 and maybe 10, you can install Linux and write bash scripts to fully automate the process including setting the cron ( scheduler ).
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Dec 6, 2023 18:34:19 #
petrochemist
Loc: UK
I think I'd used a compukit UK 101, ZX80/81, HP 2113b mini computer, BBC micros, spectrums, CPM (commodore PET iirc), DOS (in multiple versions between 2.0 & 6), GEM, windows 286, 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, & 95 before windows 98 was released. After W98, I've added W2000, W NT, W7, W10, unix & android - so (even ignoring systems without disk drives) more operating systems before W98 than after it (my unix & android usage is very minimal no more than 2 versions each).
Fortunately so far I've avoided W millenium, Vista, W8 & W11
I think I still use a laptop running W98 - it's adequate for playing audio & displaying PDFs in my workshop and I'm not worried if the dust kills the hardware.
Fortunately so far I've avoided W millenium, Vista, W8 & W11
I think I still use a laptop running W98 - it's adequate for playing audio & displaying PDFs in my workshop and I'm not worried if the dust kills the hardware.
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Cragzop
Loc: NYC
I remember buying a small “computer,” put out by Sinclair. I think I got it for $99 through a campaign with American Express.
Dec 6, 2023 20:06:37 #
I am a Linux guy.
Used it the majority of my engineering career. Sun Os before that. Sun OS was Suns version of Linux.
Liked being having the source code in case I needed to make improvements.
My last job they were stuck on Windows. I did that for three years. Twice as hard to make things work. We were using windows 7 and Microsoft supplied a way to modify the kernel. Few users know it existed. PIA but worked. That is until windows 8! That feature went away. Broke the entire system.
My solution was to retire. They had to switch to Linux to continue. $$#_&!!!, Microsoft. 😡🤬
Used it the majority of my engineering career. Sun Os before that. Sun OS was Suns version of Linux.
Liked being having the source code in case I needed to make improvements.
My last job they were stuck on Windows. I did that for three years. Twice as hard to make things work. We were using windows 7 and Microsoft supplied a way to modify the kernel. Few users know it existed. PIA but worked. That is until windows 8! That feature went away. Broke the entire system.
My solution was to retire. They had to switch to Linux to continue. $$#_&!!!, Microsoft. 😡🤬
Dec 6, 2023 20:56:10 #
My last company before I retired used CentOS our servers and WIndows 10 for our desktops although we spent a lot of time writing bash scripts to preprocess the tens of rows that we imported each day.
Dec 6, 2023 21:45:27 #
SunBeach1962
Loc: Syrscuse, NY
tokeefe1554 wrote:
Yeah, I'm old enough that I remember 3.1 and 95. And I'm 72.
Tim
Tim
Fortran, then DOS High School, Class 1970, SUNY College '73
Prof stated there are two kinds of computers. The ones we have now and the ones they have not invented yet!
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