My Fourth Operating System
Dec 6, 2023 23:32:52 #
JBGLADSTONE
Loc: Oregon
I am using windows XP. I need it for my graphic vinyl software.
I have Windows 7pro for my old laptop That I use for AIM data acquisition for my son's race car.
I have Windows 7pro for my old laptop That I use for AIM data acquisition for my son's race car.
Dec 7, 2023 00:37:47 #
I supported 95, and 98 (better), but personally went from DOS to NT4. NT4 is where I learned to program with the cmd prompt. .bat files will work somewhat, but .cmd files can use all the features in NT+
Dec 7, 2023 04:02:54 #
Mr. SONY wrote:
You ever try DR DOS?
I was a big fanboy. DR DOS had a GUI before Windows did and it was open source. I think it started with a Tandy 1000 and DR DOS and I don't think I jumped on the Windows bandwagon till 98 came out. I also remember Mosaic Twin which was a cheap or free version of Lotus' suite—also liked WordPerfect. (I think you can still buy Wordperfect Office?) I built and maintained a few rather large databases with DBase III. Nowadays I'm lucky if I figure out how to turn the computer on. I have not kept up.
Dec 7, 2023 05:25:47 #
Dec 7, 2023 05:48:02 #
My first operating system was the ten fingers system until my accident with the circular saw I then advanced to the A bucus system until the mainframe came unstuck and all the algorithms fell to the floor. I then found DOS and my life was changed forever switching the doohickey on and off to restart has become a fulfilling occupation ever since.
Dec 7, 2023 07:57:40 #
niteman3d wrote:
I was a big fanboy. DR DOS had a GUI before Window... (show quote)
Yea, if one doesn't use the ability, over time it leaks out of the head.....
dBase IV was so much fun to program.
Dec 7, 2023 10:44:58 #
Dec 7, 2023 11:53:52 #
df61743 wrote:
Me too. If I recall correctly, that is a 360 mode... (show quote)
You are correct, that is a Mod 30 that we installed at Univ of NC in ‘65 when I was an IBM CE on the shiny new 360 system. We replaced a Univac vacuum tube machine that was more than 10x the size and had an A/C system that was just as big. Interestingly, the year before, I worked for Corning glass that developed and produced the SLT modules used in the 360 - square, fused silica substrates with silkscreened gold frit caps and traces and tin oxide resistors that were automatically micro sand blasted to the correct value - the predecessor to the IC.
Dec 7, 2023 18:08:09 #
Wyantry
Loc: SW Colorado
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 than that.
Started with CP/M, then DOS. Tried the first Windoze — and switched to MacIntosh.
No need (or desire) to play with the Microsoft nonsense: “Do you want to quit”, “are you sure you want to quit”, “are you REALLY sure you want to quit . . .” And similar crap.
Dec 8, 2023 17:21:51 #
JeffR
Loc: Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Longshadow wrote:
And 2400 baud was the cat's meow! 
I would have killed for 2400! Mine was only 1200.
Dec 8, 2023 17:23:43 #
JeffR
Loc: Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
sippyjug104 wrote:
My first computer was an Osborne-1 that had two floppy drives and a five-inch non-graphic screen. The operating system was CP/M2 and I paid a staggering $1,800 when I bought it in 1981.
Spent $2k on my Osborne, but it came with Wordstar and SuperCalc.
Dec 8, 2023 17:30:02 #
Wyantry wrote:
Older than that.
Started with CP/M, then DOS. Tried the first Windoze — and switched to MacIntosh.
No need (or desire) to play with the Microsoft nonsense: “Do you want to quit”, “are you sure you want to quit”, “are you REALLY sure you want to quit . . .” And similar crap.
Started with CP/M, then DOS. Tried the first Windoze — and switched to MacIntosh.
No need (or desire) to play with the Microsoft nonsense: “Do you want to quit”, “are you sure you want to quit”, “are you REALLY sure you want to quit . . .” And similar crap.
I always loved their "functionally useless but logically correct" error messages. I wrote manuals for a lot of corporate software based on PCs. Explaining error messages was always less fun than trying to understand what they were telling the user to do!
Microsoft apparently never tested their software on people who were not information technology employees.
Dec 8, 2023 17:30:05 #
JeffR wrote:
I would have killed for 2400! Mine was only 1200.
Dec 8, 2023 19:53:35 #
JoeBiker
Loc: homebase: Houston, TX
JeffR wrote:
Spent $2k on my Osborne, but it came with Wordstar and SuperCalc.
I didn't spend that much for a (used) car in 1981.
Dec 8, 2023 21:46:06 #
Wyantry
Loc: SW Colorado
Post:
JeffR wrote: Spent $2k on my Osborne, but it came with Wordstar and SuperCalc.
Right! But your car could not write letters or calculate with spreadsheets . . . .
JeffR wrote: Spent $2k on my Osborne, but it came with Wordstar and SuperCalc.
JoeBiker wrote:
I didn't spend that much for a (used) car in 1981.
Right! But your car could not write letters or calculate with spreadsheets . . . .
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