When I started in computing, I had to read boxes full these
into one of these
No-one believed a computer could be built that would fit on a desktop. Well, except for a few hardcore science-fiction readers and geeks...
Posted on 04/06/2012 10:30:40 AM PDT by ShadowAce
I’ve been looking for that.
What is the name of the executable?
What is the default name of the datafile? Actually, I’m more interested in the extension since I know my wife renamed the DB part of it.
Thank you,
You can usually get it via Google search. There are plenty of links to sources.
Ah, the good ol’ days.
Circa 1993 my wife bought me 4 megs of RAM for my 486.
$100/meg. ,yes $400 for 4 megs.
Yes, you're right, but you're thinking like a techie (like me, too).
To most PC users, "Windows" and "DOS" were two different things because Windows was a GUI and DOS was a command line. Finer points like the fact that the GUI was nothing but an application layer over DOS didn't matter to users.
A software program that "ran on DOS" vs. one that "ran on Windows" underscored the difference.
> NT and latter variants killed DOS, as did Linux and Mac OS.
Yes, but... one could also say that NT didn't "kill" DOS, so much as it "replaced" DOS (and the DOS/Windows line).
What "killed" DOS and DOS-based Windows was Windows-ME. ME drove a stake through the heart of the DOS/Windows line. ME was intentionally broken, by Microsoft's design, to make the user experience so bad that people would rather take the leap to NT5 (Windows 2000) than continue under ME. Unstable, incompatible, hard to configure, and a poor shadow of 98/SE which was actually rather good for a single-user system.
People rejected ME in droves, and manufacturers had been pressured to drop support for 95/98 so all new computers came out with either ME, or the new Win-2000.
The emergence of Win-XP a year or two later sealed DOS/Windows' fate, as Microsoft withdrew support for the older releases.
I've run every version of Windows since and including Win2.0. Win3.11 was decent for its time; 98/SE was good; Win2K was good; XP eventually became decent; Win7 is great. 95, early XP, and Vista sucked. But WinME was by far the worst, and I have it on good authority from a friend working for Microsoft at the time, that ME's problems were intentional, and designed to kill off DOS/Windows. I have no reason to doubt that.
My first CS class required us to write a program on cards, just so we knew how it used to be done. I never went to the “no food or drink” Lab to wait my turn at a terminal for subsequent excersises. I went home, cracked a beer, lit a cig, and dialed into the Lab with my TRS-80 CoCo and 300 baud modem to do my lab work.
Tele-Computng was great back then. Still is. Now I do it with an iPad sitting on the couch. :-))
Yeah, but what a decision.
I was blown away by VB1. I was so much into the DOS mentality, though, that I eventually just stuck the diskette at the back of the pile. Several years later, I needed some Windows power and stumbled on VB3 (had forgotten all about VB in the meantime). It was even better than I remembered and I was still able to design an app in a couple days.
For my money, you can take VB.net and stuff it.
I made some good money as a young guy doing NetWare server builds and network troubleshooting.
I accidentally stumbled upon a fun 'bug' in the NetWare networking software for DOS/Windows. If you mixed versions of the software on a Windows machine almost everything would run fine, but if you sent a network message to that machine it would reboot. I shared this information with a few select co-conspirators in the office.
A few choice machines on the company network were so configured and when the douchebag manager rode your ass, you'd just wait until you knew he was neck deep creating some document and then send him a message. The roar as he saw his machine POST and he realized he hadn't hit "save" lately made everything OK.
You got me on that. Was that before or after Mosaic?
>> Was that before or after Mosaic?<<
Just after Mosaic — IIRC, it was actually the creation of a law school or something like that.
>>A few choice machines on the company network were so configured and when the douchebag manager rode your ass, you’d just wait until you knew he was neck deep creating some document and then send him a message. The roar as he saw his machine POST and he realized he hadn’t hit “save” lately made everything OK. <<
Few people realize the beauty of white hat hacking.
To use Access on my computer I had to increase to 16 mb of memory. It was $50 a meg at Costco. It cost me $800.
Those were some expensive days back in the 80’s apparently. I remember using Commodore 64 at school, lol.
Sacramento MUPT’s? That’s something I haven’t thought of in a very long time. And yeah, they were awesome!
Wow, you found an old thread there; cool. Yeah the MUPTs were classic. We managed to find all kinds of ways to get into trouble. I was known as Ozzyman at the time, and was close friends with Zarquon and Peaches. I can’t recall any other handles at the moment though.
Regards,
Ozz
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