Are you switching to Windows 11?

Certified Novell Network Engineer.
Close enough?
I was into DOS and BSD pretty hard. Did some work on Banyan Vines and OS2. I was fluent in Amiga.
The first time I saw the "internet" was about 1994. I ran a website that had a DOS back end.
I was one of the first Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers in Canada.



Banks and financial institutions held on to Xp for a LONG time, may still be running the backbone.
 
Nothing wrong with it for storing recipes, writing snail mails, shopping lists, mailing lists etc.
Not exactly, if the PC and OS are being used to run some piece of hardware, be it some CNC machine, POS system, some single use hardware, it's ok. As soon as you connect to some network then even for emails, this is when things become tricky.
 
Not exactly, if the PC and OS are being used to run some piece of hardware, be it some CNC machine, POS system, some single use hardware, it's ok. As soon as you connect to some network then even for emails, this is when things become tricky.
True. It’s OK in one’s own little world. My W-7 won’t do emails anymore due to being left in the dust by upgrades from others.

Gone too are the CRT monitors and dot matrix printers. The dot matrix ones used to be the cheap ones.

The company I worked for at the time first got involved with computers with a Timex Sinclair thing that they kept plugging memory modules into. Storage was a cassette recorder.

Keep a pencil handy in case you have to realign your storage.
 
True. It’s OK in one’s own little world. My W-7 won’t do emails anymore due to being left in the dust by upgrades from others.

Gone too are the CRT monitors and dot matrix printers. The dot matrix ones used to be the cheap ones.

The company I worked for at the time first got involved with computers with a Timex Sinclair thing that they kept plugging memory modules into. Storage was a cassette recorder.

Keep a pencil handy in case you have to realign your storage.

Dot matrix printers are still used today. Very seldom but still relevant.
 
Anybody here predate Windows?

Average age on GTAM is 70 years old.

I'm going to say most people on here pre-date Windows. It's just that some of them aren't in IT, so what "pre-dating Windows" to them means a small hole in the wall to let light in, and to let out smoke from the big fire in the middle of the thatched hut.
 
True. They're needed for multi copy forms but they're no longer cheap. Inkjets are almost free. They get you on the cartridges.
Early 2000's Lexmark had a "brilliant" idea to littler the world with a free POS (not point of sale) inkjet printer if you bought a computer or something related to it. People fell for it and then they realized that the ink was more expensive then the printer itself and the printer was garbage.
 
Average age on GTAM is 70 years old.

I'm going to say most people on here pre-date Windows. It's just that some of them aren't in IT, so what "pre-dating Windows" to them means a small hole in the wall to let light in, and to let out smoke from the big fire in the middle of the thatched hut.
Hey DOS doesn't sound good. Respect your elders :ROFLMAO:
 
Hey DOS doesn't sound good. Respect your elders :ROFLMAO:

I'll have you know I still have a 5.25" floppy with PC-DOS v1.1 on it!

It's an original, in-the-wild version. Not something I downloaded from a vintage OS website. And *not* MS-DOS! 🤟

I'm older than I look. In high school, I learned to program FORTRAN IV and Pascal on a state-of-the-art PDP-11 running TSX. I missed out on the tail end of the punch card curriculum by only a couple of years. My CS teacher had a whole box of Do-Not-Fold-Staple-Spindle's on his office desk...
 
I'll have you know I still have a 5.25" floppy with PC-DOS v1.1 on it!

It's an original, in-the-wild version. Not something I downloaded from a vintage OS website. And *not* MS-DOS! 🤟

I'm older than I look. In high school, I learned to program FORTRAN IV and Pascal on a state-of-the-art PDP-11 running TSX. I missed out on the tail end of the punch card curriculum by only a couple of years. My CS teacher had a whole box of Do-Not-Fold-Staple-Spindle's on his office desk...
Now that is history. Finally dumped my 5.25" floppy disks a few years ago. Wish I held on to the Commdore 64 though.

You and Neda never age! Must be the out West thing. All my friends that temporarily move West, never come back.
 
Wish I held on to the Commdore 64 though.

This might interest you:


You can find some games here:


My buddy had a VIC-20, I used to go over to his place after school every day to play games loaded from a casette tape. I was so jealous of him.

Then I got an Apple ][ with a 5.25" floppy drive and then he was over at my place all the time. His turn to be jelly.

Then we both got 8086 PCs and we exchanged games over a 300 baud acoustic coupler modem. Then I got the newest, super-duper 8087 math coprocessor and I was King Sh!t once again because I could play Flight Simulator and he couldn't. LOL!
 
This might interest you:


You can find some games here:


My buddy had a VIC-20, I used to go over to his place after school every day to play games loaded from a casette tape. I was so jealous of him.

Then I got an Apple ][ with a 5.25" floppy drive and then he was over at my place all the time. His turn to be jelly.

Then we both got 8086 PCs and we exchanged games over a 300 baud acoustic coupler modem. Then I got the newest, super-duper 8087 math coprocessor and I was King Sh!t once again because I could play Flight Simulator and he couldn't. LOL!
I had a Vic 20 growing up when they first came out. I think we used to play some version of Frogger on that and was the cool kid in the hood. Then we got a c64 and then a Macintosh all in one thingy.
 
I had a Vic 20 growing up when they first came out. I think we used to play some version of Frogger on that and was the cool kid in the hood. Then we got a c64 and then a Macintosh all in one thingy.

I was glad that all our friends had different computer games and consoles. Got to go around and play different games at all their houses.

My cousin had a Colecovision that we wore out the pins on his Jungle Hunt cartridge, my VIC-20 buddy had an Atari 2600 before that - that was THE SH!T back in the day. We were addicted to Missile Command. Every once in a while, I'll peruse eBay and daydream about getting one to toy around with. And also one of these:

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of course...
 
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