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Postby cyprusgrump » Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:56 pm

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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:

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

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


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... :lol:

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


you are too young then... :lol:

Probably...

My first experience with HP hardware was the HP-85 which came out in, um 1985?...

Also a vast Motorola 68000 based Exormacs system with a CDC cartridge drive - took half a day to spin up! :D
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Postby Get Real! » Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:01 pm

cyprusgrump wrote:No he means Megabytes... he is carried away with it all! :D

:oops:

Who remembers how to format an MFM hard drive in debug? :lol:

A:\>debug

-F 200 L1000 0 ???

:? :lol:
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Postby cyprusgrump » Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:03 pm

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cyprusgrump wrote:No he means Megabytes... he is carried away with it all! :D

:oops:

Who remembers how to format an MFM hard drive in debug? :lol:

A:\>debug

-F 200 L1000 0 ???

:? :lol:


:oops:
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Postby Get Real! » Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:06 pm

You’d buy a brand new HD and a third of it was trashed from the factory… and we all accepted that and thought it was ok! Image
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Postby cyprusgrump » Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:11 pm

Get Real! wrote:You’d buy a brand new HD and a third of it was trashed from the factory… and we all accepted that and thought it was ok! Image

Full height 5¼" Winchester drives tho - value for money in weight alone...
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Postby Get Real! » Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:13 pm

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Get Real! wrote:You’d buy a brand new HD and a third of it was trashed from the factory… and we all accepted that and thought it was ok! Image

Full height 5¼" Winchester drives tho - value for money in weight alone...

I don’t recall any Winchesters but I do remember Bernoulli… :?
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Postby cyprusgrump » Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:15 pm

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Get Real! wrote:You’d buy a brand new HD and a third of it was trashed from the factory… and we all accepted that and thought it was ok! Image

Full height 5¼" Winchester drives tho - value for money in weight alone...

I don’t recall any Winchesters but I do remember Bernoulli… :?

I remember the big black full height 5¼" drives were always Winchesters...

Bernoulli was shite as I recall... never really worked properly...
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Postby boomerang » Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:27 pm

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Get Real! wrote:You’d buy a brand new HD and a third of it was trashed from the factory… and we all accepted that and thought it was ok! Image

Full height 5¼" Winchester drives tho - value for money in weight alone...

I don’t recall any Winchesters but I do remember Bernoulli… :?


come on man, how can you don't remember winchester drives...i was doing alignments in the field on them, with a CRO...fuck those were the days... :lol:
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Postby Pambs » Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:12 pm

shahmaran wrote:Well that would be the main issue :lol:

Plus the OS X feature rip offs that don't really work, and the problems with software compatibility, it all just works great...


theres no issue with compatibility, almost all aps support vista
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Postby Pambs » Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:14 pm

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Pambs wrote:new technology is better technology. and dont believe that thin that xp is better than vista. what sort of pc do you have, give us the specs and i will tell you


I have a quad opteron with 4gb ram and 500mb video and around 1tb of disk space, trust me I know Windows like the back of my hand and I see Vista as the equivalent of Windows ME which was a piece of crap that they used to make money with before releasing XP. Was ME better than 98? No it was not, but it was newer. I am sure Windows 7 will be much better than Vista but Vista was no way near better than XP. In fact Vista was a very shitty copy of OS X that did not work.

There is a world of difference between having to tweak your machine to the level of insanity in order to remotely have a stable system and to just whip out your Macbook from its box and voila, its working like a clock, a super fast clock as well.


i'm using vista 64 with an i7 proc, 6gb ram and more than 2 tb hd. i never encoutered an issue while i used to had more in xp. what exactly is your issue with vista?

actually 7 have a lot of things in common but they are more lite

For me, the issue is that you shouldn't need an i7 and 6Gbytes RAM to run software that used to run perfectly well on a 800MHz P3! :lol:


lol try running some of the software i use and even the 920 is low
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