Nothing wrong with it for storing recipes, writing snail mails, shopping lists, mailing lists etc.At work we had an old pc running Windows 98. Was just used to store CNC programs. No need to upgrade.
Nothing wrong with it for storing recipes, writing snail mails, shopping lists, mailing lists etc.At work we had an old pc running Windows 98. Was just used to store CNC programs. No need to upgrade.
Nothing wrong with it for storing recipes, writing snail mails, shopping lists, mailing lists etc.
Anybody here predate Windows?Matt from Speedlab in Newmarket uses some variant of Windows XP to run his dynojet software last time I was there lol.
Wonder if he has upgraded since Covid-era.
I am DOS fluent and have a bunch of hours on C64. That's as far back as I go.Anybody here predate Windows?
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.Nothing wrong with it for storing recipes, writing snail mails, shopping lists, mailing lists etc.
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.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.
Anybody here predate Windows?
Dot matrix printers are still used today. Very seldom but still relevant
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.True. They're needed for multi copy forms but they're no longer cheap. Inkjets are almost free. They get you on the cartridges.
Y2K I don't know how many generators were deemed surplus 01/01/00
Hey DOS doesn't sound good. Respect your eldersAverage 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
Now that is history. Finally dumped my 5.25" floppy disks a few years ago. Wish I held on to the Commdore 64 though.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...
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.
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.This might interest you:
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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.