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My Fourth Operating System
Dec 5, 2023 21:57:51 #
Harry02
Loc: Gardena, CA
Longshadow wrote:
And one told the computer what one wanted done...
The computer didn't keep providing "suggestions".
I'm at least DOS 2.0 old.....
And one told the computer what one wanted done...
The computer didn't keep providing "suggestions".
I'm at least DOS 2.0 old.....
One of the biggest advantages to Dos 2.0 was the ability to have directories.
I had embraced my hidden nerd side.
I even had a directory called "Belfry" to keep my .bat files in.
I even took the time to make custom prompts for friends.
Including state flags, when color capable PCs came out.
I'm at least CPM old.....
My first was a Northstar Advantage, with hard sectores floppies.
Dec 5, 2023 21:59:50 #
Harry02 wrote:
One of the biggest advantages to Dos 2.0 was the ability to have directories.
I had embraced my hidden nerd side.
I even had a directory called "Belfry" to keep my .bat files in.
I even took the time to make custom prompts for friends.
Including state flags, when color capable PCs came out.
I'm at least CPM old.....
My first was a Northstar Advantage, with hard sectores floppies.
I had embraced my hidden nerd side.
I even had a directory called "Belfry" to keep my .bat files in.
I even took the time to make custom prompts for friends.
Including state flags, when color capable PCs came out.
I'm at least CPM old.....
My first was a Northstar Advantage, with hard sectores floppies.
Love the belfry dir!
Dec 6, 2023 00:08:53 #
I'm older than that. Like Longshadow I started with a Radio Shack Color Computer.
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Dec 6, 2023 05:43:24 #
canonuser25
Loc: Cardiff (Wales NOT England)
Anybody on here use or remember concurrent cpm? Or even IBMs OS2 operating systems. Used these before migrating to Win3.1
Dec 6, 2023 06:04:52 #
canonuser25 wrote:
Anybody on here use or remember concurrent cpm? Or even IBMs OS2 operating systems. Used these before migrating to Win3.1
I used OS/2 3.0 and it's OK. I worked on a printing press with a PC running OS/2 4 as the operator interface. It has the Arcnet to interface with the machine controller made by ABB. This is back in the early 2000.
Dec 6, 2023 06:18:17 #
I started with DOS. Programming language was BASIC. 80 Micro magazine with programs listed in BASIC that you would type into the computer and then save out to a cassette tape. My first computer which I constructed was a Fergueson Big Board, Z-80 based, enclosed in a wooden box. My first assembled computer was, again, a Z-80 with a 20mb hard drive with a single floppy drive. Those were fun days.
Dec 6, 2023 06:20:40 #
Ernie1945 wrote:
I started with DOS. Programming language was BASIC. 80 Micro magazine with programs listed in BASIC that you would type into the computer and then save out to a cassette tape. My first computer which I constructed was a Fergueson Big Board, Z-80 based, enclosed in a wooden box. My first assembled computer was, again, a Z-80 with a 20mb hard drive with a single floppy drive. Those were fun days.
I bought a TI-99A computer and when I was in the store I saw they had a rather cool program in basic. So I did the listing on the screen. Shot the screen with my Nikon F2 and after developed the pictures I typed the program into my computer and it ran fine.
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Dec 6, 2023 07:11:56 #
morkie
Loc: Simi Valley CA
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.
TRSDOS
Dec 6, 2023 07:38:12 #
Older! The one below is in a museum in Australia. There is also one upstairs in my garage, along with the VCR I bought in about 1979.
Dec 6, 2023 07:41:07 #
Harry02 wrote:
One of the biggest advantages to Dos 2.0 was the ability to have directories.
My first was a Northstar Advantage, with hard sectores floppies.
My first was a Northstar Advantage, with hard sectores floppies.
My friend had a Northstar.
One big improvement over DOS was the restriction on the length of file names. What was it - seven letters? Eight letters? We had to be clever naming files.
Dec 6, 2023 07:42:40 #
Dec 6, 2023 07:44:09 #
jerryc41 wrote:
My friend had a Northstar.
One big improvement over DOS was the restriction on the length of file names. What was it - seven letters? Eight letters? We had to be clever naming files.
One big improvement over DOS was the restriction on the length of file names. What was it - seven letters? Eight letters? We had to be clever naming files.
8 for file, 3 for the extension.
(I still use names a short as possible. A carryover.)
Dec 6, 2023 08:38:06 #
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.
Older
Dec 6, 2023 08:38:43 #
Dec 6, 2023 08:57:49 #
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.
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.
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