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[cyprusgrump]

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...

I used to like CP/M!

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

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... ...I uesd to repair them...

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...

HP (we were an HP dealer) sold both DTE and DCE cables... neither worked!

If you were lucky you could configure X-ON, X-OFF but more often the breakout box was the only solution!

[cyprusgrump]

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

That is a good price actually... I may try it...

[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…

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

Oh yeah, I forgot about config.sys which is also lying on my HD somewhere...

People used to come and pay me to do a LapLink parallel transfer of “HUGE” 40Gb data for them and watched in awe…

God, I was so cool...

[Sotos]

I sometimes miss those old days too. I now sometimes use DOSBox to play old games. Like the original Larry

[cyprusgrump]

I sometimes miss those old days too. I now sometimes use DOSBox to play old games. Like the original Larry

Larry Laffer in the Land of the Lounge Lizards...?

Never heard of it...

[Sotos]

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…

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

Oh yeah, I forgot about config.sys which is also lying on my HD somewhere...

People used to come and pay me to do a LapLink parallel transfer of “HUGE” 40Gb data for them and watched in awe…

God, I was so cool...

You sure you wanted to write 40Gb? I am a bit confused

[boomerang]

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...

I used to like CP/M!

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

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... ...I uesd to repair them...

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...

HP (we were an HP dealer) sold both DTE and DCE cables... neither worked!

If you were lucky you could configure X-ON, X-OFF but more often the breakout box was the only solution!

shit this is going back...I used to work on the oldl MICOM multiplexes and banyan switches...telecommunications...along with fixing printers...

anyone remember the Philips P350 and P320 series?...I know them like the back of my hand...well used to anyway...

[cyprusgrump]

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…

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

Oh yeah, I forgot about config.sys which is also lying on my HD somewhere...

People used to come and pay me to do a LapLink parallel transfer of “HUGE” 40Gb data for them and watched in awe…

God, I was so cool...

You sure you wanted to write 40Gb? I am a bit confused

No he means Megabytes... he is carried away with it all!

First hard drive (Winchester at the time) I sold was 5Mbytes... It had to be formatted as four 1.2Mbyte drives to emulate four 8" floppies...

[cyprusgrump]

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...

I used to like CP/M!

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

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... ...I uesd to repair them...

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...

HP (we were an HP dealer) sold both DTE and DCE cables... neither worked!

If you were lucky you could configure X-ON, X-OFF but more often the breakout box was the only solution!

shit this is going back...I used to work on the oldl MICOM multiplexes and banyan switches...telecommunications...along with fixing printers...

anyone remember the Philips P350 and P320 series?...I know them like the back of my hand...well used to anyway...

Nah... I was exclusively an HP man for most of my career!

[boomerang]

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...

I used to like CP/M!

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

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... ...I uesd to repair them...

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...

HP (we were an HP dealer) sold both DTE and DCE cables... neither worked!

If you were lucky you could configure X-ON, X-OFF but more often the breakout box was the only solution!

shit this is going back...I used to work on the oldl MICOM multiplexes and banyan switches...telecommunications...along with fixing printers...

anyone remember the Philips P350 and P320 series?...I know them like the back of my hand...well used to anyway...

Nah... I was exclusively an HP man for most of my career!

you are too young then...