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| youki:
Do you remember CPM/80 ? It is from that OS that comes the Famous A:> of DOS. DOS 1.0 was simply of kind of port of CPM/80 (what was for Z80 processor) to 8086/88 processor. The first PC i owned had DOS 2.11 . :-\ ... i'm feeling very old too... :cry: |
| jcrouse:
My first PC I actually owned was an 8088 running DOS. I remember buying a mouse on the way home. I set it all up and then had to install the mouse software, of course, a floppy. I opened the manual, started to read and saw that infamous word which will stick in my memory forever, "autoexec.bat". I couldn't even pronounce it. I immediately called a friend of mine who had a pc and told him to get the #$%^ over here and give me a hand. WOW, the good ole days of autoexec.bat and config.sys, when I actually felt like I had control of something. John |
| shorthair:
--- Quote from: BobbyG66 on March 20, 2007, 12:14:14 pm ---Does anyone remember buying a can of oil and then having to stick a spout in it? --- End quote --- Ah, that ain't that old. They still did that through the late 70s....of which, with regard to mice, I would go to my dad's work with him on saturday sometimes, and I remember there being no mice around...and the keyboard an monitor were one piece! |
| youki:
Speaking of mice , do you remember Light Pen? Here in France we had very popular set of computer (Thomson TO7, MO5, MO6 etc...) that were provided with a Light Pen in standard. That what was fun to draw directly on the screen on painting software. And point menu item directly. A kind of ancestor of touch screen. |
| loadman:
--- Quote from: Circo on March 20, 2007, 12:52:01 am ---I never felt old until right now.......no offense. :'( --- End quote --- AmigaDos ;) Not so old |
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