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New Hard Drive Ad, a couple years ago
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I still remember using 8 inch floppy discs.Wow, 10 mb! Out preforms other hard drives. Must be on sale for that price!View attachment 86143
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I’m still in BASICcp/m! Slick and efficient operating system - wasn't loaded down with fancy dancy graphics and things called "colors".
Remember dBase?
cp/m-86 lives!
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What? You mean you never got to Officer Candidate School?
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I thought that when windows came out, what, back in the 90s some time, it was the coolest thing! Today it has advanced so far it doesn't excite me anymore. Linux has come a long way for simplicity and converting windows users. Problem with me is I still have some older programs that don't run or don't run well on the little penguins sites. 
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Paul, I had some of those issues too. For a while, I would boot Windows but rarely to get it done. When my only Windows computer crapped out, I found that I really didn't need the apps after all. I never took the time to figure out how to make Wine work but I have been happy ever since with Linux only plus a rare foray into herself's Mac. Maybe I just don't do the sort of things I used to do.
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I remember ALGOL. That was before FORTRAN.
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According to Wikipedia, ALGOL came out in 1958. The FORTRAN language was proposed in 1953 and the first compiler was delivered in 1957. Learned it in college - with key punch cards. First programing done on a PDP from a Western Union teletype machine with a paper tape.
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The only OS I use here is Linux. CentOS. Been building and installing Linux servers in small businesses in the area since the late '90's. Networking them to MS workstations on LAN setups. Finally "retiring" and going back to my roots: photography. GregW turned me on to Darktable, an Adobe P'Shop open source alternative. Very few wares made to run on MS that haven't an alternate open source equivalent.
Herself is trapped in MS due to the work she does, as Adobe is what the print houses use for final product. Fighting City Hall is a b**ch.
"Linux. Learn it. Love it!"
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CentOS used to be a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). They've now moved it to be in between RHEL (stable) and Fedora (bleeding edge). CentOS 7 supports ends in 2024. The current version is CentOS Stream 9 and it's end of life is tied to RHEL 9.
I recently switched from CentOS 7 to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (tong term support) with the Mate desktop at home. Probably need to play with the gnome-3 desktop sometime.
I recently switched from CentOS 7 to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (tong term support) with the Mate desktop at home. Probably need to play with the gnome-3 desktop sometime.
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Yep. The Register has had several articles about the changes.
Running 7 here, got a bit disappointed at GNOME becoming more like a touchscreen/cellphone GUI.
I've put Ubuntu and Fedora on other folks' laptops, those willing to adopt it seem pleased with that.
Running 7 here, got a bit disappointed at GNOME becoming more like a touchscreen/cellphone GUI.
I've put Ubuntu and Fedora on other folks' laptops, those willing to adopt it seem pleased with that.
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Played with Rocky Linux at all? Supposed to be what CentOS was - a clone of RHEL.
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That was more than a couple years ago LOL! I remember the first computer I bought had a 10MB Full Height IBM hard drive. After that, I bought, what I thought at the time was more hard drive than I would ever possible use, a half-height 65MB (not GB) hard drive which cost me almost $500 (still a heck of a lot cheaper per MB than your advert). Now days you can buy multi-terabyte for under $100! As I type this, between my internal and external drives, I have over 16TB sitting on my desk.Wow, 10 mb! Out preforms other hard drives. Must be on sale for that price!
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I don't remember what I paid for my first tower computer in the early 90s, it was a lot at the time, but it had a 5" and a 3" floppy drive plus a monster 165 MB hard drive! I was in 7th heaven with that one. I had no idea at the time what I would do with all that storage, but I had to shrink windows to get it to install since I had a handful of photos that ate up most of the space. Funny looking back at what we had to work with. The only OS it came with was DOS. 
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First PC I played with was at work, an IBM PC Jr with two 5 1/4" floppy drives, no HDD.
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I have probably told this before but... My first computer had a Z80 processor, 64k memory and a dual drive for 8 inch floppy disks for a total of 2.44MB. On it I maintained the inventory for a truck part house that had 3 branches, n Oklahoma, Florida and Nebraska. They had slightly over 20,000 part numbers. The 64k memory board cost $1,000 and the dual floppy drive was $2,500. Man those were the days.
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My digital history:
abacus
Sinclair 1000
Commodore 64
Commodore 128 with cp/m
Osborne I with cp/m
Kaypro with cp/m
Compaq DOS
Panasonic DOS
TRS-80 Model 100; Tandy 102
can't remember the various Dell Windows desktops
current: Dell laptop, Dell desktop - still have the TRS/Tandy and Osborne.
Need to dust off my backup computer:
abacus
Sinclair 1000
Commodore 64
Commodore 128 with cp/m
Osborne I with cp/m
Kaypro with cp/m
Compaq DOS
Panasonic DOS
TRS-80 Model 100; Tandy 102
can't remember the various Dell Windows desktops
current: Dell laptop, Dell desktop - still have the TRS/Tandy and Osborne.
Need to dust off my backup computer:
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Haven't had to replace any of the boxes here in a while, when time comes I'll have to make some choices. That may be a good one.
An Epson with an 8088 engine followed me home. Two 5 1/4" drives and no HD. Early-to-mid eighties, IIRC. Discs for DOS or CP/M-80. Made the choice to become proficient with DOS, brewed up my own slimmed down version of 2.11. When 286's came around it was time to upgrade the machine. That started the "build it yourself" chain of events. Hasn't stopped since.