I think I have a Rat Shack TRS80 laying around here somewhere....What can I say, I was a Techno-Geek Pak-Rat in my younger days.....So Sad.

 

I have my VIC-20, a Commodore 64, and (I think) my SX-64 "portable" in the garage as I write this.

I believe I could still find some DOS 6.21 disks somewhere in our home office.

EDIT: Wholly Kow! On a lark, I just went looking for those old DOS disks, and found DOS-4!

I gotta' get a dumpster one of these days!

Pop

 

HMMMMMMM DOS........

 

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I couldn't help myself. Unfortunately I cannot do the proper formatting in this dialog...

 

Nah, I thought Java was one of those "Flash in the Pan" Programs......Shows what I know....Should Have bought some Microsoft back then too.

 

Got home from work. Walked into garage and thought, Were did I put my keys, I looked in my lunch bag, My pockets, OH, maybe I dropped the keys out in the yard someplace. Walked back out to truck, I found my keys, they were still in the ignition with the truck still running. (f150 quiet gaser)

 

Can anybody tell me how to get AutoEnginuity to work on my Amiga?

 

You have to have the proper dongle. It's the same one that mates the AE to the VIC-20 & Commodore 64 computers.

I've heard someone has been able to modify the adapter used for the Tandy TRS-80, but I haven't confirmed that.

Stewart

 

no, you need a DOS disk to load before windows

 

Dang, ok guys, which OS was the last OS that booted to a DOS prompt?

I remember having to type commands in after the computer booted to the blinking underscore after the "C:\>"

IIRC, I had to switch to the D drive whenever I wanted to play Wolfenstein and Doom.

Stewart

 

A friend of mind's uncle had an opportunity to invest $500 into Apple back when they first started. Was going to, but the family car broke down so he had to get it fixed with the money. I can only imagine what could have been...

FreeDOS is still around and used Stewart.

 

Stewart,

I used MS-DOS, though there were other DOSs at the time.

If I recall correctly (and that's becoming less frequent) that was 6.2.2.

Well, really 6.2.1, and then 6.2.2 had something added in that version that was pretty useless and quirky.

But I believe 6.2.2 was the last "official" release.

WinDoze rode up on top of DOS for a while.

Occasionally I run a drive utility that deep-cycles hard drives, and it boots the computer in DR-DOS (Digital Research). I believe it's still a current product, based in Irvine or Laguna Beach.

Pop

 

Thanks Pop.

Like you, my recall sure isn't like accessing a DVR nowadays, so I'm not sure I'm remembering correctly, but I thought for one of my earliest computers I had to type "run win" or "run windows" once the computer booted to DOS.

Stewart

 

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.

 

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.

Though these memories are coming out of the woodwork, I wonder if I could actually still operate a DOS machine. I have an 80286 machine still on a shelf, that has my old favorite CAD program on it (and a heckuva' bunch of drawings), but I would have to hook up all the peripherals to look at it, and I'm just not THAT interested.

Pop