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EmptyTimCup
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Chain of Fools : Upgrading through every version of windows (HQ)
Nice .....
Nice .....
BOP
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Holy Carp! Talk about a blast from the past. I had or have all the versions of windows except 1.0 and Vista. I had all the previous versions of DOS up to 7.22, and I remember dos shell...it's how I got windows installed for the very first time on an old XT computer (20MB HDD!). I just ran across a couple of copies of Doom and DoomII on floppy not long ago. Not sure whether I kept them or tossed them.
Wow!
Wow!
I still recall a group of us computer nerds at the rocket lab snickering and guffawing over the silly notion that IBM would be able to do anything with some new OS they called "MS-DOS" on their new "PC" when its intro was first announced.
We were smug in our total certainty that CPM ruled the computer world and Kaypro and Osborne made the best machines evah..and always would.
We were smug in our total certainty that CPM ruled the computer world and Kaypro and Osborne made the best machines evah..and always would.
BOP
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Sounds like my original setup.
What kind of lame-o would want to retain the same color scheme for 20+ years?
I interpreted that as an integrity thing. How well would the settings you made in a previous version transfer to the new OS? I would have liked to have seen him try to play DOOM II on the windows 7 OS. I used to have to write batch files and go through all kinds of contortions to get some games, like Ultima 7, to play on 95 or 98.
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EmptyTimCup
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We were smug in our total certainty that CPM ruled the computer world and Kaypro and Osborne made the best machines evah..and always would.
I have an Osborne OSS1 ?
BOP
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8- or 16-bit processor?
Somewhere I still have my Shack 4P 'portable'. That thing was awesome...
Dual operating systems: CPM and TRSDOS. 128K of memory (64K dual banked), twin 5.25" floppy, and ....:drumroll:...a built in modem that screamed bits back and forth at a blazing 300 baud.
And the best part of all was that I only had $3500 in the 'puter and a dot-matrix printer!
Dual operating systems: CPM and TRSDOS. 128K of memory (64K dual banked), twin 5.25" floppy, and ....:drumroll:...a built in modem that screamed bits back and forth at a blazing 300 baud.
And the best part of all was that I only had $3500 in the 'puter and a dot-matrix printer!
hvp05
Methodically disorganized
That was my first type also.
I had it for a few years before moving up to a Canon bubblejet. That was light years ahead.
BOP
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Haw! I had a daisy wheel printer through the first 2 years of college. That was when professors insisted on typed papers, back in the early days of dot matrix and others.
Finally got a HP laser jet (deskjet?) printer...now all it's good for is a boat anchor. It's certainly heavy enough!
Finally got a HP laser jet (deskjet?) printer...now all it's good for is a boat anchor. It's certainly heavy enough!
jrt_ms1995
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We were smug in our total certainty that CPM ruled the computer world and Kaypro and Osborne made the best machines evah..and always would.
MS-DOS was just a crude CPM knock-off, surviving because of marketing, and a Victor 9000 or Northgate would crush a Kaypro and Osborne! (Well, maybe not the Osborne; it was so heavy it would crush anything!)
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