Microsoft nostalgia

[darktiger]

This is awesome.......
Look at the size of that monitor, and the compaq 386....And the singing near in the end...and the mention of OS/2

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...36239&hl=en-GB

[kenw]

you ARE young......it was a big day when we trumped Old Blue on the 386 release.

ah, memories....of when you could actually fix something by getting under the shell.

[darktiger]

I am not that young. I remember programming on my Tandy 1000....oh those were the days....

[dlbdata]

I remember loading the early version of windows via floppy. Can't remember what I did with OS2 but I used it.

[srwatters]

Three letters...

C-P-M on a Z-80! or OS-9 on a 6809 CoCo (Tandy Color Computer).

Kids these days.

[ratbert]

Osborne 1

[JamesB]

thats funny, i forgot all about 123 until this video. before 123 I used paradox at work.

James

[Joe_Lorenzini]

Originally Posted by srwatters

Three letters...

C-P-M on a Z-80! or OS-9 on a 6809 CoCo (Tandy Color Computer).

Kids these days.

Yep, the Z80 was my first experience with a computer and then I quickly moved on to an ALTOS system with dual 8-inch floppy disks.

I still have Windows 3.0 on floppy disks (shrink wrapped) as well as my first US Robotics 300 baud modem that I used to chat it up on Compuserve...

Ahh to be six years old again...

[brad]

My first job was programming in basic on a Cromemco CPM machine... this thing actually had two terminals hooked up to a computer that was the about 4 foot to each side cube... and we had an Osbourne 1 sitting next to it that we used once in a while as well... good old luggables.

[kwhite]

Originally Posted by darktiger

This is awesome.......
Look at the size of that monitor, and the compaq 386....And the singing near in the end...and the mention of OS/2

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...36239&hl=en-GB

Real micro guys pray to Gary Kildal

[srwatters]

Originally Posted by kwhite

Real micro guys pray to Gary Kildal

Yup. I actually hand toggled in the boot loader on an IMSAI 8080 one instruction at a time. Even wrote a floppy disk driver in assembly for that machine.

Originally Posted by Joe_Lorenzini

I still have Windows 3.0 on floppy disks

I couldn't find my single disk of MS-DOS 2.11 or the original IBM PC-DOS 2.0 that I have in a box somewhere, but here's v3.30, v4.0, & v5.0. Just don't ask me why I keep them
Maybe I should load them onto a Parallels VM and run it under OS X Poor old DOS code won't know what to do on the dual Woodcrest CPUs. Who remembers config.sys and autoexec.bat?

[Gambit]

I've got a 5.25" drive carefully stashed away in case you need to read those floppies. :)

My first computer was a TI-99/4 (with chiclet keys) I bought at the end of 6th grade. Spent my life savings on it. But I'd been programming TRS-80s for two years by then.

[daveb]

CPM on a coleco ADAM (the advanced digital adding machine)
and them on to the Amiga 500 -2000 3000-4000

[boomerd35]

I try to never talk about the good ole days of computing on a forum. No matter how long you've been programming/computing, there's always someone who was around before you and thinks you are a whipper snapper .

Troy T.

[bburton]

Originally Posted by boomerd35

I try to never talk about the good ole days of computing on a forum. No matter how long you've been programming/computing, there's always someone who was around before you and thinks you are a whipper snapper .

Troy T.

Why I remember when all's we had was a wooden slide rule and a piece of chalk . . . and we liked it that way.

Actually, my first computer was a Tandy 1000.