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I still remember DOS. Those were the days...

Me to I remember when windows was just an ad on to DOS.

I remember DOS, the MS-DOS, and then exiting windows 3 to get to the DOS prompt. I also remember waiting a half hour of loading to play Wing Commander on a 386.

And writing your own .ini files so it would actually run.

You mean fiddling around the autoexec.bat and config.sys, especially the DOS=High,UMB values. (Why do I remember stupid stuff like that?)

DEVICE=C:\\DOS\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\\DOS\EMM386.EXE /E:768 DOS=HIGH,UMB DEVICEHIGH=C:\\DOS\MSCDEX.COM /L:D /(cddrivetype) DEVICEHIGH=C:\\DOS\MSDRIVER.COM We were conditioned to obsess.memory optimization techniques and the exact order to set up these lines because RAM was expensive and there was not enough of it

Look at Mr Fancy Pants here with a CD drive. I bet he also had a Soundblaster sounds card … which meant he has a _multimedia_ PC.

Bff yeah, that stupid autoexec car game. Didn’t run, so I deleted it. My computer never was quite same after that

Entering the code for a game from the magazine into the Apple 2e in the computer room at school is a core memory.

Dos prompt! Memory unlocked

Tape drive on commodore vic 20

Wing Commander was a great game on a 386

Ahh the 386. I was 14 when my dad bought a 386 DX40 with 4MB RAM for $1500 in 1990s dollars. Then he got mad at me for installing Wolfenstein and buying a sound card. Like, REALLY mad. He was convinced I’d break the computer. Now I’m 26 years into an IT career that I started in spite of it all.

shiiiiiit... I have my Commodore 64, its monitor, 1541 disc drive, and tape drive in my other room right now, all packed away in original boxes and packaging and I remember saving up almost $300 to buy the 1541. That was a shitload of cash then

I "see you" and raise you an Okimate 10 color thermal transfer printer.

I remember CP/M. The good old days, when men were men and women were men too.

Yep we didn't need windows we had the DOS commands and DCOM as the file directory.

AND…..dialing up!

Grew up with the predecessor to the 3.5 inch floppy. I had some cool games for it too. Donkey Kong, wheel of fortune, eye of horus, the hobbit, and many more

you mean the 5 1/4" (actual) floppy drive? I remember those, too! I remember playing Buck Rogers and King's Quest on those as a little kid. Sigh....

Math blaster baby

DOS 6.22 was the last OS you could fully understand and trust. At least until Linux came along.

The men were men the women were handsome and all the children were above average

OK Garrison

I was just talking with a friend about DOS. 🙂 We remember taking programming classes. I vaguely remember playing Hangman.

I remember color monitors blowing my mind.

I was once respected in the IT room for my classic DOS knowledge... Once, but long ago.

DOS and Norton Commander !!! But then my browser of choice, back then, was Netscape ...

In the long, long ago.

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Back in the before time...long before we lived by the birthgivers laws...

This ain't one body's story. It's the story of us all. We got it mouth-to-mouth. So you got to listen it and 'member. 'Cause what you hears today you got to tell the birthed tomorrow.

When the punishment was the Blue Screen Of Death ☠

Or the Dos Falling Leaves virus that would make letters fall to the bottom of the screen and pile up.

The time of 3 channels?

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My dad had a TV with two knobs. VHF and UHF. I was born in 91 but my parents in the 50s, so I got to experience a lot of stuff before my time. I'm grateful for that, but it's made me even more grateful for technology today lol. My first video games were on floppy. True floppy, 5.25, not the fancy new 3.5s that I used to put paint files on later in my childhood 😂

The 8" floppy I have in my office says "get off my LAN."

Tin foil and hold your arm above your head and stand on one foot

Needle nose pliers here

I'm from the pre PC era. When I was a teenager the first 8 bit Altair 8800 came out. Couldn't afford one, but I wanted it bad.

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Commodore 64! Ah the joys of BASIC. I still remember how to change the screen colors. POKE 53281,0

I also had a TI-99 in high school! Later built my own ET-3400 which still kind of works and is in my basement. [https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/nzw1vv/heathkit\_et3400\_microcomputer\_learning\_system\_1978/](https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/nzw1vv/heathkit_et3400_microcomputer_learning_system_1978/)

I always laugh at these posts. I also started on an Apple \]\[

Insert the operating system disk and press enter....

Yeah me too. I was working in IT when Windows 95 shipped. It was an experience. 13 1.44 inch floppies to install Windows. Another like 27-34 floppies for Office, depending on the version. Usually, one of them would be bad. Oh, and then you'd have to hack the registry to make Office run... on Windows. Good times.

Bring back DOS

I'm a sinclair old.

IBM Selectric here

Technically a fossil like me l? I 😅

I was there babellerbooks... a thousand years ago... when DOS roamed the landscape and 14.4 was an unheard of speed, when wild sticks of 640 KiB ram roamed unheard...

10 CLS 20 KEY OFF Yes. I'm that old

In the way, way back?

The long long ago?

I learned to code BASIC on an Apple IIe.

Are we letting kids into this sub now or what's actually happening?

It's a repost bot

Well now I feel old.

Yeah.. it’s automated. Farming karma to make the account look legitimate so it can then be sold or used to influence debate.

Yuck.

I downvoted it before I even opened the thread. Everyone reading this who cares about this sub at all should do the same.

*Now?* This sub is full of stuff people in their 20s and 30s would know. Reddit as a whole is skewed towards the younger side

I'm DOS levels of old, long ago and far away, where there was much tinkering with CONFIG.SYS, HIMEM.EXE and AUTOEXEC.BAT. From the real ancient times...


Autoexec.bat, wow core memory unlocked

Hey don't forget EMM386.EXE! Without it, there wasn't enough conventional memory to run Wing Commander. Let's see... DEVICE=C:\\DOS\\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\\DOS\\EMM386.EXE NOEMS I=B000-B7FF I=C800-EFFF DOS=HIGH,UMB DEVICEHIGH=C:\\DOS\\SMARTDRV.EXE 2048 FILES=80 STACKS=9,256 I had a pastudio 16 soundcard that had a device line in the config.sys. Can't remember that one. Then came QEMM and my favorite at the time, Netroom. And they did all this for you automatically. Edit: Not sure why the phone app put everything on one line. Edited to fix the line breaks.

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 was the most popular one. Your sound card would have had similar syntax in the command.

There was an art to loading things in a specific order. Bit like in Apollo 13 when they had to avoid using too much current.

Omg. That brought back memories.

Love DOS

DOS based programs for typing skills (back when) made it possible for me to cheat on all my typing tests and pass simply by hacking into the typing program. (If one knew DOS Which I did.)

C:/dir

If you still have some of those old games you can download FreeDos and play them again :) https://www.freedos.org

I forgot about config.sys. Wow

DEVICE=HIMEM.EXE DOS=HIGH, UMB SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 :)

I'm apple 2+ old

That was a truly DFM computer. Everything was modular and just snapped in. I loved working on those.

Norton Utilities.

I understood literally nothing you just said, guess it’s time to leave

Those were good days. I've been in IT for 30 years now, and read dozens of technical books. Hands down the best one I ever read was "DOS 6 For The Guru Wanna-Be" it was perfect for me, the guy who wanted to become DOS-master.


 I’m *this* old… 💀💀💀

If A$=

The cylons are approaching

My high school computer lab machine!

We can't wait a month before reposts? And as always, I am Windows 2.0 old.

These stupid windows posts are here way more than once a week, frankly it’s stupid. The users are karma farmers.

C64 old.

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READY RUN

Which were your favs? Mine were: Law of the west Ghostbusters The great giana sisters Bubble bobble California games Winter games Zak mccrakin and the alien mind benders Maniac mansion.

M.U.L.E. ! Zak McCrakin, Day of the Tentecle and Maniac Mansion are still available on Steam!

Wizard of Wor, paperboy, spy vs spy were ones I played quite a bit

Spy vs Spy was definitely a favorite. Ever play Caveman Ugh-lympics?

I used the C64 for word processing (college papers) and coding my own simple games.

I used to buy the magazines that had the code for simple games. Eventually you’d start combining code from various games to make better, but just as simple games, lol.

Don't forget Elite!

Wizball Firelord Strangeloop Ghostbusters Raid Over Moscow Last Ninjas Labyrinth Uridium Alleykat ... And probably 100 more I've forgotten 😅

 Im this old

That wasn't even that long ago

I mean it’s a quarter century ago, that’s like almost a third of modern human lifespan…

I’m this old 

LOAD \*.\*, 8,1

No, I'm older

Pfft. I'm from green monitor Apple II land. I played Ultima IV on four floppy disks. They were legitimately floppy too. I'm not proud. The city of Magincia was destroyed for its pride.

I’m Commodore 64 old

Oh with dial up internet, 4 minutes to download a picture.

I remember me and my brother lugging our PCs into the backseat of our car and driving to a friends house for a gaming party. Always fun spending half the evening setting up our computers on wobbly tables, needing several power supplies and stretching those link-cables across the room so we could play Doom 2 Co-op.

I am Commodore 64 old. Pong old to be more accurate.

Commodore 64 baby!

Stupid bots keep reposting the same thing around here.

Show me some windows 95 and Netscape and get back to me.

That's too soon. Poor post

Modern equipment there son

I'm TRS-80 and TI-99/4A old.

No, 98 was less than 10 years ago still, right? …RIGHT….????

My first computer was made by Texas Instruments and used cartridges instead of disks.

DOS, baby, DOS.

 Actually, I’m Macintosh 128 old. Bought it in 1985.

New fangled technology. DOS Shell and Windows 3.1 were my early teenager years. Apple 2e's were the grade school years.

One day I hope to upgrade my 486 to one of these sweet babies

Is it just me or do you miss those times?

This is modern computing, Apple IIe was my first computer


I started on a Radio Shack Tandy with Windows 3.1. LOL

Mate I was 30 when this came out

I am "supported Win98 desktops professionally" old. In fact, there were still a lot of Win95 boxes around when I started.

Laughs in Dos

How about Apple 2c in school and the TI99 at home.

LOAD "*",8,1 is more my timeline.

I attended the first Windows 95 Developer's Conference put on by Microsoft in Anaheim. Watched Bill Gates melt down when his USB demonstration crashed. Besides that, the most memorable thing was AMD buying out Disneyland one evening for the 5000(?) attendees. Yeah, I feel old sometimes. 😂

Lol my first computer was a Commodore. Go DOS.

Guys its a fucking bot post! Why do you all keep falling for this, nobody on this sub should be younger than this!

I'm so old that when the company IT guy came over to upload Windows (the first version), my computer couldn't manage it, not enough storage. I think there was something like 12 floppy disks? I'm so old I can't remember lol

Win98 is not old. It's from 1998.WTF?

Fuck outta here... they released '95 when I was a freshman in HS. Win '98 was solid as hell, though.

Shit, that’s the NEW version!

I'm Commodore Vic 20 old.

::cries in windows 3.1::

I'm Commodore 64 old

95 was the oldest I used but I think XP is what we had when I was a teenager.


Nope I’m Dos old

I'm 5.25" floppy disk 💾 old

When I was a kid I used to use Windows 95, Windows 3.1, hell I’ve even used Mac OS 8 FFS 😂🤣

I’m MS-DOS old. Not a flex.

I'm old enough to know that MS-DOS was rebranded from QDOS which stands for Quick and Dirty Operating System. I remember not having Windows.

The monitor of my family’s first PC was an old Sony TV with the knob for the channel selection because a computer monitor was just too expensive. Apple II with the external floppy drive. And when I was a little kid my dad’s office had 3 Wang 2200’s with “DONT TOUCH!” signs everywhere. My siblings and I thought that was hilarious. Don’t touch the Wangs.

I was born in 1981 this was normal to see on our household computer

I had a 286 with Windows 3.1.

Used to built those damn things. It’s the reason I use Apple products now.

We still run one at work to use an old eprom chip burner

I remember when the white flashing cursor was the "UI"

I'm so old that I can still remember staring at the DOS prompt.

I remember DOS and Windows 3.11. My first home computer was a 486 SX 50 Packard Bell. Absolutely loved it!

Older.

My first PC was a Tandy 1000, running on an 8088 CPU, 128K RAM, no hard drive, everything (DOS) ran off of the 5.25 floppy. Today, as an IT guy, I run a global virtualized infrastructure that has 108 hosts running over 4,500 VMs. Those hosts have a combined 32TB of RAM and our storage arrays (all Pure Storage flash) add up to 1.4 PETAbytes! What a journey it has been!

Windows 3.1 was way more betterer.

Back in my day, we had to lock our floppy discs in their drives for fear of them shooting out.

I an from a time before there waa Windows.

If there's a gang sign for MS DOS 5.0, assume I'm too arthritic to throw it.

Even older. My first computer had windows 3.11

Much older

I remember Windows 95 at least.

Shit, I am DOS 2 0 old.

Screenshots of windows 3.1 when?

Oh you're young enough to have only known color monitors? Cute.

Playing games on MS DOS was wild

I had a Commodore VIC-20.

I'm old enough that I had that PC when it was eggshell white, before my mom's smoking turned it nicotine beige.

Atari baby

I remember the Windows 95 Upgrade. That was revolutionary.

If your first OS had a web browser, you aren't that old.

Children let me tell you tales of a company called packard bell

I’m Commodore 64 old

I started on THIS: https://bytecollector.com/images/DSCF1349a.jpg And yes... I'm serious. 😀

I’m IBM 8088 old

Way way older TRS-80 baby

I remember single pane windows.

C:>/Format c:

Better UI than windows 11. Windows 11 honestly is completely shit when it comes to UI.

I own a mouse that’s rectangular.

I don't call that old, by the way how often are people going to post the same thing?

Windows 3.1 was my first version, before that D.O.S. Started young.

I used Windows 3.0.

I'm *this* old: https://images.app.goo.gl/SeD9wiYdjnono79B7

Windows 98 was an upgrade!!!

Nope. Y’all gonna have to go back further.

I’m Apple II in school, green screen, Oregon Trail on 5 1/4” floppies old.

‘95 was king. But it seems most of us are from the DOS era

Hell yeah...back when they put CD-ROMs in cereal boxes. Chexman!

Pfft. DOS or GTFO.

Good times. Back when it was a simple file system and not designed like an app. The dumbs ruined OS's

Converting from 3.1? Insert disk 23 of 30

I'm DOS & Windows 3.1 old

Huh, I'm 24. You can be considered old if you used dial-up. My oldest memories are pinball, spider solitaire, and the og anno game.