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Deepblue

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Deos any one here remember these

1. when your system had 128K or < of ram
2. when Trident was top of the line video card
3. Cirix CPUs,
4. QDOS, great program
5. List x.x, great program
6. GEOWORKS, poor mans Windows, what a joke
7. BBS
8. Ansi graphics

what else does anyone remember
 
In retrospect, it's a laugh to remember DEC's Ken Olson saying that he didn't see the need for homes to have individual computers. I guess that's one more reason that DEC is gone.
Tom
 
I've got a digital research computer running the real deal, digital research disk operating system :)

My dad used to work for digital in cleveland.

The gaming is intense on that thing. I think it's a 286
 
I remember when the old IBM computers had to boot up and then you went through a graphical interface to run Windows, how bad did that suck?
 
Sorry for double posting but remembered this site : oldcomputers.net its awesome... from the 1971 kenbak-1 to the 1989 atari ST book... its freaking awesome =) check it out!
 
INTELCRAZY said:
I remember when the old IBM computers had to boot up and then you went through a graphical interface to run Windows, how bad did that suck?
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i think you're talking about dosshell

and you didn't have to do that, you just had to type "win" or "windows"

that wasn't that long ago, either. even windows 3.1 machines still booted to dos first
 
heyman421 said:
I've got a digital research computer running the real deal, digital research disk operating system :)

My dad used to work for digital in cleveland.

The gaming is intense on that thing. I think it's a 286
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haha forgot about DRDOS, i had it on a 386 years back.

it was a 386 sx16 motherboard/cpu ,40 MB hard drive, floppy and PSU Screwed to a peice of plywood
with no fans and no cover it had a external modem 1200baud or slower i dont remember, i used it for
a BBS system...

that was a one sweet system
 
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INTELCRAZY said:
I remember when the old IBM computers had to boot up and then you went through a graphical interface to run Windows, how bad did that suck?
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that didnt suck, what sucked was being damn good at dos and learning to use
windows :D

heyman421 said:
i think you're talking about dosshell

and you didn't have to do that, you just had to type "win" or "windows"

that wasn't that long ago, either. even windows 3.1 machines still booted to dos first
Click to expand...

that would have been in the early 90s and it wasnt the dosshell it was Dos, and you could have the Win command in your autoexec.bat to start windows when Dos loaded, but for us Dos people we would REM it out or just remove the command so we didnt have to load windows. the Dosshell was while you was in windows and you went to a command prompt it opened in a window just todays command prompt.
also called a Dosshell was programs like Qdos " QuickDos " and List, a " ansi graphic application that ran Dos commands.
Quick dos is not the same a Quick and dirty operating system also called Qdos and this is the OS that Bill Gate bought for $25000 cash and $15000 per corporate license that he sold. he sold one license and that was too IBM, that is what became known as MsDos :) and for those that dont know this Windows
and the mouse was stolen from Xerox by Apple and then stolen from Apple by Microsoft.... hahaha suckers :)

if you like this you should watch the movie pirates of silicon valley.
 
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