It's the worst kind of one-upsmanship, but I want to claim seniority for a 110 baud Radio Shack accoustical modem (you jammed the telephone receiver into a pair of rubber cups) used to communicate with Compuserve around 1980.klockemy wrote:Wow....and I thought I was old school with my 1200 baud US Robotics Modem....
Polysomno....something, story?!?!
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Re: Polysomno....something, story?!?!
LinkC wrote:Remember plain green text on a black screen? And nothing but a C:\> prompt to work with?klockemy wrote: Wow....and I thought I was old school with my 1200 baud US Robotics Modem....
No color...no animation...no "streaming" anything! Ah, those were the days.....NOT!
Bad command or file name
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c>prompt $p $g
C:\>cd windows
C:\>WINDOWS>win.bat
OMG, I remember those, although I didn't own one. They used those in WarGames....along with the 8 1/2 inch floppies that held 360K single sided.PST wrote:It's the worst kind of one-upsmanship, but I want to claim seniority for a 110 baud Radio Shack accoustical modem (you jammed the telephone receiver into a pair of rubber cups) used to communicate with Compuserve around 1980.klockemy wrote:Wow....and I thought I was old school with my 1200 baud US Robotics Modem....
Re: Polysomno....something, story?!?!
I think it was DOS 2.0, where you said "format c:" and it obligingly did. In green letters on a black screen...
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Re: Polysomno....something, story?!?!
ozij wrote:I think it was DOS 2.0, where you said "format c:" and it obligingly did. In green letters on a black screen...
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Re: Polysomno....something, story?!?!
If you want to go down THAT memory lane, here's some links to the past:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DOS_commands
http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm
http://www.easydos.com/dosindex.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DOS_commands
http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm
http://www.easydos.com/dosindex.html
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Re: Polysomno....something, story?!?!
All you IT oldtimers...remember the orange screen that made your eyes go color wonky -- lunch always looked so unappetizing after looking at the monitor for awhile
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I remember playing the very first Space Quest game playing on a monochrome monitor... I remember using Flight Simulator on a monochrome monitor as well...Muse-Inc wrote:All you IT oldtimers...remember the orange screen that made your eyes go color wonky -- lunch always looked so unappetizing after looking at the monitor for awhile
wow... I'm gettin' old!
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Better old than the alternativericochetv1 wrote:...wow... I'm gettin' old!...
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Re: Polysomno....something, story?!?!
I work on green screen mainframes most everyday at work. I have the space quest, leisure suit Larry and kings quest collections on cd that runs in winxp.