OK I just got DOS v 6.22

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and a 5 MEGABYTE Hard Drive for my IBM PC-XT...

U can't touch me :headbang:

[SpiralHawk]

1. I just got Tiger

Mac OS 10.4.

You can't begin to imagine the transcendent difference.

[wtmusic]

4. Is it way different than Panther? n/t

[swag]

2. You rock like no other.

UNDELETE wins every time!

[wtmusic]

8. And with this Wordstar2000 I just threw away all my correction fluid!

now to print...where's the damn USB port on this thing??

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Awesome

[Crazy Guggenheim]

5. WOW! I get impressed by that!

[Deja Q]

6. You will never need more than 640KB. Guess who said that?

Someone who should be on the gutters; not the people whose jobs he offshored a few months ago...

[wtmusic]

7. Sounds like a Gates-ism...

although that was back in the day when his work was actually respected

[Deja Q]

23. He never was... Gates is corporate filth. Always has been:

Back in the day he created a BASIC compiler program for a hobby computer (Altair) that had cost $300.

Cost of the microsoft BASIC compiler software? $300.

IT programmers were outraged. Software that costs as much as the computer is asinine. (kinda like how a $300 PC requires Windows XP; a new license is nearly $300!) As a result they made their own compilers and gave them away. (the forefather of open source?) This pissed Gates off, causing him to send out letters to "his" community. What a jerkwad.

http://www.digitalresearch.biz/CPM.HTM also points out how shady that little creep was when "developing" MS-DOS for IBM. http://www.granneman.com/techinfo/background/history/ (look at Microsoft column, year 1981.)

Oh, I also recall reading that Gates and his buddies used a hardware emulator to help 'create' his MS-DOS! An Altair, I think...? Nice for the late 1970s... I did a quick search to verify this, but "emulator" is a hot item these days on search engines and got lots regarding MAME, UAE, and other emulators... I'll get my older computer out of storage and check my bookmarks, I know I saved the reference...

Gates is power mad and cares naught for the quality of his software. He wants power and control and he's got it now. Been that day from day 1 and any number of historical sites, pro- or con-, ultimately stem from the same facts. The con- sites going into any level of detail that ANY such site ought to be giving.

An an off-topic note, Steve Jobs - in 1976 - sold his Apple I For, get this, $666.66. I'd stay away from Apple... http://www.granneman.com/techinfo/background/history/

[wtmusic]

24. thanks...some great history there, HT

perhaps he was respected but not rightfully so...I've always hated the MS m.o. and IMO they got off *far* too lightly with the DOJ

[markus]

9. I can bring myself to part with my Leading Edge Model D

Screaming 8086, 512 MB, 5 1/4 duelies.

Man, I love that amber screen. Beats green out all to heck.

I remember debating whether we should spring for the 20 MB Hd on another early office PC, thinking, man, it would take forever to fill that thing up...

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

15. Hey, I had one of those!

It was given to me. Never did find a use for it...

[Maestro]

10. Oh yeah!

;)

[wtmusic]

11. Hey, that's a LOT cheaper than my PC...

but would I have to cut my hair like that dude?

[Maestro]

12. I hope not

Check out the advanced features. Of course this was the time I was spending large amounts of time on my Atari 2600.

[Thor_MN]

21. If I could get hair like that for $200, I'd be very happy

Why is it that my forehead (and my waist) never stopped growing?

I've also had the recent indignity of having a nephew become taller than me.

[Jackpine Radical]

16. I actually owned one of these little hummers

& had a blast writing BASIC programs for it. 1k of RAM really taught a person to write tight code, i'll tell ya.

It took about 5 minutes to load a 1-k program off tape, if everything went right, which it seldom did.

[jandrok]

13. You are a computer MUSCLEMAN!

Betcha even got a Hercules color card, too, ya glutton! Who the hell needs that much power? Keep your DOS-based PC. I'm cool with my Commodore 64. BASIC is the language of the FUTURE!

[wtmusic]

14. Yeah, I don't like to brag, but

this is one big, tan, badass computer :D

[Maestro]

17. The history of my computing

goes back to writing BASIC code in Computer Lit class in high school. I just couldn't see the use of the it. Oh well.

[hijinx87]

18. oh, yeah? what about . . . . .

[wtmusic]

19. I've seen those newfangled things

but I decided to go with a name brand...you know, a computer I can still use 20-30 years from now... :D

[ChoralScholar]

20. Don't forget to run DRVSPACE, you are gonna need it.

Don't you love those old MFM/RLL Hard Drives? They sound kind of like electric percolators.

Oh yeah, and remember to put FASTOPEN.EXE in your AUTOEXEC.BAT!

[wtmusic]

22. I will...I have it right here on my 5 1/2" floppy disk

click...click...click...click...click...click...click...click...click...click...click...click...click...