Posted on 12/18/2006 10:09:46 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
fyi
Oh, yeah, and this little Star Trek game I have on a floppy at home. If you want to keep Klingons from circling Uranus, this is the app for you!!
OK.....ROFL!
Primarily Lotus, Excel, AutoCAD, MSProject, PowerPoint, MOST, and our ERP is Vantage.
I first played this game as "Rogue" on an IBM portable PC in 1984. The screen was a seven-inch amber monochrome, there were two 5 1/4 floppy drives and no hard drive, and the keyboard went "tacka-tacka-tacka" like an Underwood electric typewriter...but the game was addictive, and I was badly hooked.
1998 VMWare.
matlab 4.0 (for windows, unix, VMS, and what have you) made engineers and analysts 10X more productive. Matlab truly is the language of engineering.
OK, I read his, now let's read yours. Thanks.
P.S. My first computer was a DEC Rainbow. It was very expensive and almost obsolete the minute it came out because of it's weird version of MS DOS. Thanks Ken Olsen.
Windows 3.0 was not an OS. It was a GUI app running on top of DOS, which was the OS.
Hey, the boss brought it in from home, so I just went with it.
It had the most unique feature - when you hit "Ctrl B" [the Boss key] it shut off all sound and images and plopped a graph onto your screen. So in 1 second you could pause the game and make the boss think you were looking at some kind of business related graph.
I think the original MAC OS should be number 1 as an OS, with kudos to the PARC syatem at Palo Alto Xerox for spawning it. Everything done since by MicroSoft and Apple came from that system; apple trying to get better and MS trying to keep up.
I have this game called Fleet Commander, where you control the ships, planes, etc.. I removed it from my computer after playing one game...for 6 hours. I saved the world at 4am and the planet was ungrateful.
No more..no more....
guiding Big Blue into virtual-reality realms such as Second Life
Irving thinks this is the next Killer App....
It's not really an app but I vote for yEnc.
If you have to ask.....
Let me add Quicken to the list.
I still insist on a keyboard that goes "tacka-tacka-tacka". I can't type on the soft mushy ones.
Yes, technically you are correct. I forgot about that tidbit...Like DosShell.
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