Remember when DOS commands were all we had???

[Red State Rebel]

I was NOT enthused when Windows came along. Sitting smugly at my PC with 512K, I thought that if you couldn't manage DOS you had no business with a computer :) hahahaha!!!!!

[Cleita]

1. Me too.

I still hate windows as I can't control it like I could DOS.

[slackmaster]

2. I use shell commands and scripts in Windows all the time

I am a system administrator. Often shell commands are the easiest way to do things.

[wtmusic]

6. No kidding, GUIs are for lightweights

j/k, they both have their advantages but if you're a good typist it really is faster

[Bertha Venation]

3. Yep. And I remember going to Kinko's long ago, sitting at a Mac

-- which I had never used -- and asking the clerk, "How do I get out to DOS?" :eyes: at self

[Red State Rebel]

27. Hahaha! I knew just enough to be dangerous.

I have never used a Mac - the opportunity just has never presented itself.

[nostamj]

4. DOS?

i remember UNIX.... <creak creak>

[wtmusic]

8. Oh yeah? I remember punch cards!

so there! :P

[nostamj]

9. oh shut up and take your geritol!

;-) damn these elderly show-offs!

[wtmusic]

11. OK I will

right after my nap!! z-z-z *dreams of Eniac*

[artv28]

18. I remember before punched cards

we used to chisel data

[Worst Username Ever]

21. Oh yeah? I remember a pencil and paper!

Beat THAT!

[Canadian Socialist]

32. And no

calculators for physics. Just my trusty old slide ruler. Heee. I, too, am of the punch card generation. The computer to read/compile the programmes took up one whole floor of the engineering building at the University of Manitoba. Ah, memories. Carrying around a shoe box full of my programmes, then dropping it and trying to resort them. Those were the days, my friend.

[slackmaster]

28. I programmed on punch cards as an undergraduate

I finished my Bachelor's in 1980. Now when I go to visit the university I see thousands of students who weren't even born when I graduated.

[patdem]

37. I was a punch card operator and a tape libraianian..so there put that

in your smoking jacket...I had an IBM computer with an 8" floppy...the program was inserted in the top..the data disk in the bottom...of course that was the NEW PC as opposed to the EXTREME machine I worked with in the insurance company!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. ahh... the good old days....

when my sig line was....


Toto, I don't think we're in DOS anymore.....

:o

[Union Thug]

7. I hated it when they finally made it impossible

to run dos independent of WIndows.

But then again, I still think of the early 90's as the golden age of the Internet.

[King Coal]

10. You can hack Windows 2000 with dos commands.

Oh yeah, it's real secure. NOT!

[sweetheart]

12. and if you knew how to type, it was faster than windows

Remember how fast you could shut down... copy files and all that good
stuff. I really miss a 100% keyboard interface, truth be told, it used
to be faster 10 years ago to make documents than it is today with all
this shifting back and forth to the mouse.

For the 4th time, i've again purchased "visio" diagramming tool, and
am unimpressed that micrsoft mucked it up when they bought it from
visio. It seems anything gets neear microsoft, it gets slower and
changes the focus on my whilst i type.

Like when a new browser is starting, and i'm typing in a URL and it
changes the focus to some other window... yea right, the only user
of the PC was dying to have the focus changed... than's bill you
technology moron.

I realize that somewhere in the gears, that a hacker can fix all the
problems, but why should the average user be punished for not be a
windows master geek.... Windows is just another case of american
market failure... no innovation, fat profits, gouging and monopolistc
practices, like upgrading every 2 years and forcing all customers to
buy new crapola.

[KitchenWitch]

14. Microsoft is bloatware!

[crispini]

20. The new Visio is HORRIBLE.

Microsoft knows NOTHING, NOTHING about usability. It continues to blow my mind, the extremely basic usability principles they break. They are purveyors of the worst, most crappy software EVER in terms of ease of use. Honestly, I think that MSFT's attitude towards usability can be shown in the fact that not one, not ONE of their newsgroups focusses on usability -- and they have HUNDREDS of newsgroups. I also have yet to find ONE msft blog on MSDN that talks about proper design.

They stink so bad at usability that they smell like a three day old skunk that's been left out in the rain. And covered with dog poop!

Sorry, </ >

[msgadget]

13. It took me forever to give up DOS

programs even after I went to Windows. There's a bit too much remove, especially after XP...

[redqueen]

15. Yes

I still don't like Windows.

[Done]

17. I use DOS all the time.

I still write in qbasic. Never did like the newer stuff as much.

[Aristus]

16. I remember DOS and having to punch in commands by hand.

Never could master the arcane gibberish necessary. I was convinced then that computers would remain the realm of nebbishy enthusiasts.

Shows you what I know! :eyes:

[lpbk2713]

19. I tried XP Pro and went back to Win98SE

because I couldn't use a lot of the DOS apps I liked. I still find DOS Shell kind of handy sometimes. Maybe I will try setting XP up again sometime soon and partition my HD so that I can still use Win98 from time to time.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

30. &*$#@&** Teenagers!

I wanna go back too, but the kid's games have to be XP!!

[crispini]

22. I work for a company that did remote dial up servicing

of our customer's computers. We'd regularly dial in using a home grown remote management program... and the only thing we had to get around was DOS. I still remember all of those DOS commands... Ah, the good ol' days. OS/2 was the Big Thing to come along back them! :)

[qnr]

23. No. I'm not a Microsoft type n/t

[Dzimbowicz]

24. Yep, sure do.

I also remember having to write code in Assembler and JCL.

On Edit: The entire mainframe, which took up an entire room, originally had one meg of RAM, but was uprgraded to six meg. It also had thirty-five pound 250 meg removable hard drives.

[masaka___]

25. Using Linux, now.

I wasn't very thrilled with Windows (or Microsoft's business practices) either.

The command line is still my favorite interface.

[Cadence]

26. Yep. I still remember my first batch file "program" that

I wrote.....oh and dialing in to bulletin boards before the internet.

[Left Is Write]

29. I remember when Windows first came out. I didn't "get" it at first.

I also remember my first computer game - a DOS-based, text-only game.

(And I thought I was pretty hot stuff at work when I got a 486.)

[achtung_circus]

31. I got yhe first computer in my office.

I was later the envy of everyone because a later 'puter had 40 meg. I also remember Fortran cards, dialling up the university's mainframe to run an oh-so-simple mapping programme.

Don't remember that pencil thing though.

[baldguy]

33. "In MY day..."

[ContraBass Black]

34. My first computer was a Mac.

I think I started using it when I was two. Maybe younger.

[tyedyeto]

35. A commadore (sp?) 64 was my 1st...

ahhhhh....those were the days.

[Deja Q]

36. I loved scripts and such... today, it's just 'wham, bam, thank you maam'.

:-(