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Postby cyprusgrump » Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:30 pm

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Get Real! wrote:
paliometoxo wrote:everyone knocks vista but i like it :) an di will upgrade to windows 7...

Truth is, if it were not for the tolerant and daring youth we'd still be using DOS 4.1 with which we were very happy... :D

I used to like CP/M! :oops:

Once you had mastered PIP you could get it to do anything! :lol:


CP/M. I remember it well!!! Using 8" floppy's that could hold 360K, those were the good old days!


CP/M, Wordstar and Visicalc... a complete business system!

I took a system home one weekend along with a Diablo 630 daisywheel... after a lot of mucking about I got it to mail-merge a list of addresses with a standard letter - quite a feat with a two-floppy system and 64K of RAM!

Unfortunately, the printer made such a clatter all the neighbours complained and I had to switch it off!
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Postby paliometoxo » Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:32 pm

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paliometoxo wrote:i dont like xp.... i like vista ultimate 64bit which is what i have :D

But I suspect that a couple of decades from now you'll be arguing with the young ones that Vista was so great and stable and that a move to Windows 23 is unnecessary! :lol:

The older you get the greater your resistance to change.


so true... i used to love Me and wonder why people where upgrading to XP
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Postby boomerang » Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:32 pm

cyprusgrump wrote:
CBBB wrote:
cyprusgrump wrote:
Get Real! wrote:
paliometoxo wrote:everyone knocks vista but i like it :) an di will upgrade to windows 7...

Truth is, if it were not for the tolerant and daring youth we'd still be using DOS 4.1 with which we were very happy... :D

I used to like CP/M! :oops:

Once you had mastered PIP you could get it to do anything! :lol:


CP/M. I remember it well!!! Using 8" floppy's that could hold 360K, those were the good old days!


CP/M, Wordstar and Visicalc... a complete business system!

I took a system home one weekend along with a Diablo 630 daisywheel... after a lot of mucking about I got it to mail-merge a list of addresses with a standard letter - quite a feat with a two-floppy system and 64K of RAM!

Unfortunately, the printer made such a clatter all the neighbours complained and I had to switch it off!


diablo 630?...fuck this is going back... :lol: ...I uesd to repair them... :lol:
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Postby shahmaran » Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:34 pm

[quote="Get Real!"]I’m a tad ashamed to admit that I still keep a copy of my Autoexec.bat file in case we need to go back… :oops: :? :lol:[/quote

My god you are such a nerd GR! :lol: :lol:
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Postby Sotos » Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:36 pm

grump you can try this for the OS http://www.pixmania.com.cy/cy/gr/279398 ... -vert.html if it works good let me know so I will buy one too :mrgreen:
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Postby shahmaran » Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:36 pm

paliometoxo wrote:
Get Real! wrote:
paliometoxo wrote:i dont like xp.... i like vista ultimate 64bit which is what i have :D

But I suspect that a couple of decades from now you'll be arguing with the young ones that Vista was so great and stable and that a move to Windows 23 is unnecessary! :lol:

The older you get the greater your resistance to change.


so true... i used to love Me and wonder why people where upgrading to XP


It's not necessarily "change" that people are afraid of, it's the change that Microsoft brings that causes problems :lol:
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Postby cyprusgrump » Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:37 pm

boomerang wrote:
cyprusgrump wrote:
CBBB wrote:
cyprusgrump wrote:
Get Real! wrote:
paliometoxo wrote:everyone knocks vista but i like it :) an di will upgrade to windows 7...

Truth is, if it were not for the tolerant and daring youth we'd still be using DOS 4.1 with which we were very happy... :D

I used to like CP/M! :oops:

Once you had mastered PIP you could get it to do anything! :lol:


CP/M. I remember it well!!! Using 8" floppy's that could hold 360K, those were the good old days!


CP/M, Wordstar and Visicalc... a complete business system!

I took a system home one weekend along with a Diablo 630 daisywheel... after a lot of mucking about I got it to mail-merge a list of addresses with a standard letter - quite a feat with a two-floppy system and 64K of RAM!

Unfortunately, the printer made such a clatter all the neighbours complained and I had to switch it off!


diablo 630?...fuck this is going back... :lol: ...I uesd to repair them... :lol:


Actually, it was an HP 2601 which was a re-badged Diablo 630 (it still had the Diablo 630 badge on the back).

Took a breakout box and in-depth knowledge of the RS-232 'standard' just to connect one to a computer!
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Postby CBBB » Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:38 pm

shahmaran wrote:
Get Real! wrote:I’m a tad ashamed to admit that I still keep a copy of my Autoexec.bat file in case we need to go back… :oops: :? :lol:[/quote

My god you are such a nerd GR! :lol: :lol:


At least GR manges to use the "Quote" facility without cocking it up!
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Postby boomerang » Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:39 pm

cyprusgrump wrote:
boomerang wrote:
cyprusgrump wrote:
CBBB wrote:
cyprusgrump wrote:
Get Real! wrote:
paliometoxo wrote:everyone knocks vista but i like it :) an di will upgrade to windows 7...

Truth is, if it were not for the tolerant and daring youth we'd still be using DOS 4.1 with which we were very happy... :D

I used to like CP/M! :oops:

Once you had mastered PIP you could get it to do anything! :lol:


CP/M. I remember it well!!! Using 8" floppy's that could hold 360K, those were the good old days!


CP/M, Wordstar and Visicalc... a complete business system!

I took a system home one weekend along with a Diablo 630 daisywheel... after a lot of mucking about I got it to mail-merge a list of addresses with a standard letter - quite a feat with a two-floppy system and 64K of RAM!

Unfortunately, the printer made such a clatter all the neighbours complained and I had to switch it off!


diablo 630?...fuck this is going back... :lol: ...I uesd to repair them... :lol:


Actually, it was an HP 2601 which was a re-badged Diablo 630 (it still had the Diablo 630 badge on the back).

Took a breakout box and in-depth knowledge of the RS-232 'standard' just to connect one to a computer!


was that a dte or a dce device... :lol:
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Postby cyprusgrump » Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:39 pm

Get Real! wrote:I’m a tad ashamed to admit that I still keep a copy of my Autoexec.bat file in case we need to go back… :oops: :? :lol:


Ah... If you understood config.sys and autoexec.bat along with a little batch processing you could get machines to work wonders... :P
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