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I found IBM DOS!

Sphexi

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Mmm...720k of goodness right there. I still have it kicking around too, got a whole box of those little things.
 

sash1

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Originally posted by: DurocShark
Break out the 286 baybee!

ahh, the nostalgia! how many people here remember using these old floppies?
 

Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
I'll give you 3 bits and a hen from out back for it:p

I'll give you 1 byte! That's almost 3 times as much!

dude...that there hen is a layer if i ever seen one....30 eggs a week and no less..every damn week....
 

Chaotic42

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I remember when I moved up to DOS. It was like a different world with more power at my fingertips.
 

DaTT

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Originally posted by: sash1
Originally posted by: DurocShark
Break out the 286 baybee!

ahh, the nostalgia! how many people here remember using these old floppies?

The 5 1/4 ". I do back in grades 2-6. I wopuld really like a copy of windows 3.11. I would so try and connect to the WWW with it, and probably post here from it.
 

Sukhoi

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Originally posted by: sash1
Originally posted by: DurocShark
Break out the 286 baybee!

ahh, the nostalgia! how many people here remember using these old floppies?

Hell yea! 286 was my first computer. I played Test Drive II on it a whole lot. Ferrari F40. :D
 

DaTT

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Originally posted by: FrozenCanadian
I still dont get the point of this but I wont crap this thread, so have fun with your IBM-Dos.

You must be new to OT.
 

Hossenfeffer

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Originally posted by: DaTT
Originally posted by: sash1
Originally posted by: DurocShark
Break out the 286 baybee!

ahh, the nostalgia! how many people here remember using these old floppies?

The 5 1/4 ". I do back in grades 2-6. I wopuld really like a copy of windows 3.11. I would so try and connect to the WWW with it, and probably post here from it.


I think I have windows 1.0, 3.11.... gotta check
 

FrozenCanadian

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Originally posted by: DaTT
Originally posted by: FrozenCanadian
I still dont get the point of this but I wont crap this thread, so have fun with your IBM-Dos.

You must be new to OT.

I am rather new (2 weeks here) to ATOT but I don't get turned on by IBM-Dos. I grew up programming TRS-80's and Tandy Colour Computer 3's (coco3's).
 

GTaudiophile

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Funny thing is, in 20 years I bet we'll be in some sort of incarnation of ATOT, laughing about the hardware we have today. By then I should have around 80,000 posts!
 

skimple

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Originally posted by: sash1
Originally posted by: DurocShark
Break out the 286 baybee!

ahh, the nostalgia! how many people here remember using these old floppies?

5 1/4?! I remember using 8" floppy discs!

That was at least 1982. I remember programming on a brand new CompuColor computer, which could display text in 8 - count 'em - EIGHT colors. And the text could BLINK.

That was the pinnacle of user interface!