Windows Rant

chris chevhq at gmail.com
Mon Jul 12 22:17:08 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 17:32 -0400, Calcpage wrote:
> On Jul 11, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > On 07/11/2010 01:27 PM, A. Jorge Garcia wrote:
> > > > Please don't tell me it was for Lotus 1-2-3 or Wordperfect.
> > > > 
> > > Believe it or not, we did do a lot with BASIC, Lotus, WordStar and
> > > DBase in those days....  Well, before we had PCs, we had GIMIX
> > > (like an
> > > early Linux that ran UNIX apps on a mini computer) and dumb
> > > terminals....
> > > 
> > > I remember getting Windows 2.0 on multiple floppy disks (the real
> > > floppy 5.25" disks with cardboard covers) for free at PC Expo in
> > > Manhattan in 1989?
> > > 
> > > Anyone remember PCs before Windows and the Web??
> > > 
> > > Anyone remember SneakerNet and PCs without hard drives or
> > > graphics???
> > > 
> >     Heck Yes! In my storage is a computer I bought around 1960. It 
> > arrived and had 2 3.5 inch floppies and it had 16 Meg of RAM. A
> > keyboard 
> > and small Black and White monitor rounded out the thing. It ran DOS
> > and 
> > the Operating System was on a "Master" floppy in the left drive, and
> > my 
> > programs went into the right floppy. I learned a good deal of Basic 
> > while using this machine.
> > 
> >     I decided to upgrade this computer and ordered a Hard Drive with
> > a 
> > very fast access compared to a floppy :-)
> > 
> >     It arrived in a wooden Crate and the Hard Drive was suspended
> > by 
> > springs in the center and cost like $250.00. It had a full 40 MB of 
> > space :-)
> > 
> >     I had this on the for-runner of the Internet which was just a
> > bbs 
> > that sent data to a hill mounted repeater to another bbs. Great fun 
> > since we had no idea how nice the Internet would be.
> > 
> > 
> > 73 Karl
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> >    Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
> >    Linux User
> >    #450462   http://counter.li.org.
> >         Key ID = 3951B48D
> > 
> > 
> 
> I remember our first hdd was 10 MB!  Our first upgrade was to 640 KB
> of RAM.  At the time, I think it was Steve Jobs who said, "640 KB!
>  Who would ever need so much?"
> 
Nope it was Billy Boy, and I remember it well.

He could not foresee any user needing more than 640k, hence all the
mucking around with Himem.sys and other extended memory managers.
Those were the days!!!!
cheers the kiwi





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