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The_Other_One

The_Other_One

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At least about 11 years ago :rolleyes:

Dad and I have some older things laying around, but this is what he pulled out last night. Just a cover scan, too much old stuff inside can't decide what to scan! :rolleyes:

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i loved, when i was younger, the old macs with the default games of a dinosaur with a jetpack and then like MDX or something a person with like a shark fin on its head running and doing things.

lol
i was like 8 or something not that long ago
 
Wow, windows 95 sure does look amazing, I cant wait for it to finally release so I dont have to use 3.1 anymore!
 
Heh. I remember pre-windows days actually. When DOS was in it's infancy and point and click GUIs to launch programs were the big thing on IBM XTs. Sad. Very sad. *sigh*

95C was actually incredibly stable. 98 was a piece of shit, but 98SE was also very good. Me was pretty stable on good equipment, but very picky on it's environment. Too many people were buying piece of junk hardware and wondering why they were having problems with it. XP is forgiving of cheapskates and people who think they know everything about computers but don't. Me wasn't. Me truly separated the wheat from the chaff. The real technicians who knew what they were doing and the wannabes starting companies out of their bedrooms.

3.1, 3.11 etc. was useless on the other hand. I hated that program. I resisted any Windows until 95 was released and stuck with DOS. For that reason I am every bit as good, if not better, in a command prompt today than I am in Windows.
 
SirKenin said:
Heh. I remember pre-windows days actually. When DOS was in it's infancy and point and click GUIs to launch programs were the big thing on IBM XTs. Sad. Very sad. *sigh*

95C was actually incredibly stable. 98 was a piece of shit, but 98SE was also very good. Me was pretty stable on good equipment, but very picky on it's environment. Too many people were buying piece of junk hardware and wondering why they were having problems with it. XP is forgiving of cheapskates and people who think they know everything about computers but don't. Me wasn't. Me truly separated the wheat from the chaff. The real technicians who knew what they were doing and the wannabes starting companies out of their bedrooms.

3.1, 3.11 etc. was useless on the other hand. I hated that program. I resisted any Windows until 95 was released and stuck with DOS. For that reason I am every bit as good, if not better, in a command prompt today than I am in Windows.
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LOL. I agree with that entire statement. Especially the "98 was a piece of shit". I'm actually still laughing out loud about that. I'm recalling one time at a LAN my friends computer kept locking up crashing and he finally flipped out and started screaming F-U 98' F-U and then broke his monitor and punted his PC out in the street. There were about 10 of us rolling around on the ground laughing so hard we were crying. I wish I had pics of it. OH man that guy was a character.
 
Yeah, I agree that 98SE was definitely much better than 98. My parent's first computer ran 98, and wow was that buggy and frustrating at times... I'll have to take your word on Me, though; I still think that thing was a load of crap and wish that it could be un-invented. Even Dells, HPs and Gateways (when they were good...) couldn't run that thing worth ... Most of the computers that I had to fix for fellow undergrads during those years were the ones running Me. I recommended to a lot of people that they roll back to 98SE if they could, there were actually some people that upgraded to that...

On a similar subject, I was unpacking my dad's Lionel trains a little while ago which were wrapped in newspaper from when he was a kid in Iowa back in the 1940's. Anybody care to know what the scores of the baseball games were? :P
 
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Hmmm. I'm trying to think how many times I punched a 98 computer. lmao. The infamous blue screen of death with something cryptic like "Computer not found. If this is the first time you have seen this error, please buy a computer before running Windows".
 
I still love the "Keyboard not found, please press any key to contine." I just sit there staring at the thing trying to use my mind to blow it up... Although I do remember smacking the tower a few times and it suddenly coming back to life... (hence the quote in my sig... ;))
 
SirKenin said:
Hmmm. I'm trying to think how many times I punched a 98 computer. lmao. The infamous blue screen of death with something cryptic like "Computer not found. If this is the first time you have seen this error, please buy a computer before running Windows".
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LOL. Thats HOT. wow. I never saw that. Actually whenever I saw the blue screen I usually blacked out and had a NAM' flashback and snapped someones neck (lol inside joke).
 
DCIScouts said:
I'll have to take your word on Me, though; I still think that thing was a load of crap and wish that it could be un-invented. Even Dells, HPs and Gateways (when they were good...) couldn't run that thing worth ... Most of the computers that I had to fix for fellow undergrads during those years were the ones running Me. I recommended to a lot of people that they roll back to 98SE if they could, there were actually some people that upgraded to that...
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I tell you the truth. I deployed Me on a zillion computers, all custom built by myself to my specification. Not one of them came back for OS problems. Not one.

I have service an Me machine for a very odd problem, though. For all intents and purposes the CD drive appeared to be dead. Totally disfunctional. It wouldn't even open.

Well, I found out through diagnostics that Me was at fault. An easy fix, albeit a strange one.

I will toot my own horn. I was exceptionally good with Me, but then again I knew precisely what I was doing and the machine wouldn't leave the bench until I was certain there wouldn't be any issues with it.
 
SirKenin said:
There are very few Windows problems that kicking the shit out of it won't fix. lol :D
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My fav thing is to threaten to melt the computer down. It ALWAYS works for me after uttering that. :D But I wouldn't mind snap kicking a PC out a second story window. That would be funny to watch over and over again on video.
 
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