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My first computer was an 8K radio shack. as good as it gets until 16k came out. It was quite a feat to double it.
I had to rep you for that post, Bob.
You registered in '08, only have 226 posts (so obviously you don't talk nearly as much as I do, LOL), yet this general conversation thread made you break out your typing fingers, moving you from lurking to posting for this one minute.
NICE!
Originally Posted by SpringerPop
If you already had WIN in the DOS root directory, you simply typed "WIN".
If not, you used the "CD" command to change to the directory where WIN resided, and typed WIN.
There was no need to "RUN" anything, as the command line assumed you were commanding it to run something.
You have a better brain than I do my friend!
I have an 80286 machine still on a shelf, that has my old favorite CAD program on it
I'm leaving on a road trip to Reno in an hour or so (got a lifetime buddy who has a terminal brain tumor and a few of us are getting together), but I'll take a shot of it when I get back on Thursday evening. Remind me if I don't have it up here by Friday afternoon.
so I leave for a few days to go kill some Taliban ELK and this thread turns in to how old we are and the computers we grew up with and still no conclusion from the OP.
Well, after a thousand miles on the truck yesterday, a round trip to Reno, here is the promised picture of the old 286 machine. It's in an XT case with a mini-motherboard. That's a massive 1.2K drive, not a 360K(DSDD), and a state-of-the-art 1.44M on the bottom. USB had not yet been invented. I have no idea today of the capacity of the hard drive still in it.
Note my custom "Personal Computer" logo that I had made for it. M&M is for Marv & Marge. The font is a direct "forgery" of IBM's.
It had all the bells and whistles! Whoopie!
I had to closely crop the photo to avoid severe clutter embarrassment!
I remember the first computer we had, an 8088, using the 5.25 floppy's and having a chest to hold them all. Green monochrome screen that was about 12 inches. Dot matrix printer.
I have a IBM PC Jr with the floppy disk OS that still works ! Hoping it will be worth a new truck one day !
12-06-2016, 03:38 PM
