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5.25" floppy disks
computers that didn't have a hard drive* and required you to load the OS manually from floppies.
* they are partly commemorated in Russian computer slang, at least, where the hard-disk is still called a "vint" - a shortened form of "vintchester" aka "Winchester" disk
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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« Reply #31 on: 23:42:21, 20-01-2008 » |
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* they are partly commemorated in Russian computer slang, at least, where the hard-disk is still called a "vint" - a shortened form of "vintchester" aka "Winchester" disk
As in the prompt that used to appear on the screen at the end of a long day when it was time to log off and go home: I loved that. It always sounded like something from The Lord's Prayer. "Yes, I have parked my Winchesters, as I would wish others to have parked theirs unto me." |
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« Reply #32 on: 23:51:48, 20-01-2008 » |
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Dare I say audio cassettes?
Yes! Miserable things. Good riddance. |
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« Reply #33 on: 23:59:32, 20-01-2008 » |
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Dare I say audio cassettes?
Go on, risk it, Mr S! Probably best though to take your teeth out first. You know the trouble we had with 'Ashby-de-la-Zouche' the other day. "SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOL" |
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« Reply #34 on: 00:12:38, 21-01-2008 » |
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Dare I say audio cassettes?
What! Next thing you'll be saying minidiscs  |
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« Reply #35 on: 00:20:39, 21-01-2008 » |
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typing commands at C: prompts
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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« Reply #36 on: 02:51:42, 21-01-2008 » |
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typing commands at C: prompts
May Intel have mercy upon us. There are programmers out there who believe more versatile systems can be developed by using a GUI front end to drive DOS programs (but sometimes it is necessary to just invoke the DOS program in a console window).
It's at times like that, that I am painfully aware that Windows is just a pretty way of wrapping up DOS.
And then there are Dynamically Linked Libraries (DLLs) in case things are actually working. |
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #37 on: 03:16:23, 21-01-2008 » |
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May Intel have mercy upon us. There are programmers out there who believe more versatile systems can be developed by using a GUI front end to drive DOS programs (but sometimes it is necessary to just invoke the DOS program in a console window).
It's at times like that, that I am painfully aware that Windows is just a pretty way of wrapping up DOS.
Like when? Modern windowses have it hidden pretty well. It's sort of annoying how their 'command prompt' terminal has gotten in many ways progressively worse over the years; I think it was best in W2000. And there aren't any decent ones available. For the record, I love prompts! And prefer not to use windows at all. Here's a screenshot or two from back when I was in my more ... colourful ... period (it's essentially still the same now, but with no background images, just white-on black):   I find there to be something fantastically aesthetically appealing about having no visible, space-occupying gui elements whatsoever (within the operating system anyway). Anyway, those of us in *nix (for the major part) love our command prompts. Not "C:" though, but "/", but we get by just fine  I miss windows batch files, sometimes... |
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« Reply #38 on: 07:25:43, 21-01-2008 » |
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Very nice, Inky! So you mean I could have had all that, when I was actually seeing this: |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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« Reply #39 on: 08:34:01, 21-01-2008 » |
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Very nice, Inky! So you mean I could have had all that, when I was actually seeing this: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah that's totally cute. no, you probably couldn't have had it back then; they're only more recent developments. I'm getting all nostalgic thinking about our old unix terminals though:  (though that was only a mere 4-5 years ago for me, but the terminals were older than I!) |
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« Reply #40 on: 11:07:06, 21-01-2008 » |
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Dare I say audio cassettes?
Particularly when they invented machines that would automatically play back Side B. I never knew where the music was going to start when I put a cassette back in to play. We have already had the fax (an unpleasant thing that combined the worst features of the telephone and the photocopier - it could get a wrong number AND be out of toner. And Tracey, who was the only person who knew how to change the toner, was on sick leave.) I am chuffed that I started this thread last evening and it has reached three pages when I next look. Any more? |
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #41 on: 11:32:47, 21-01-2008 » |
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 I still have one, but can't justify the cost of replacing the internal rechargeable cells, so it never gets used.. |
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« Reply #42 on: 11:40:53, 21-01-2008 » |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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« Reply #43 on: 11:43:51, 21-01-2008 » |
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Non-thermostatically controlled showers, so you have to try to balance the hot and cold taps, but still the water can only manage to be A, v cold or B, v hot. And you are standing in it while trying to fiddle the controls.
Incidentally, just remind me what those hand held electronic personal organisers were called? I never had one.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #44 on: 11:55:29, 21-01-2008 » |
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Incidentally, just remind me what those hand held electronic personal organisers were called? I never had one.
It's a Psion Organiser, Don B. Their party-trick was losing all your data when the battery ran low. |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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