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The good old days

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And of course disk 26 was corrupt!

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You have to go back further for me to get to the good old days. I started using 8 inch floppy discs and punched paper tape.
 
I still have a shoebox full of the old 3" floppies. I also have a box full of the old 5" ones with Windows 3.1. I have no idea why they're still here. They're on a shelf somewhere. Even a few old 35 MM cameras floating around. My wife always asks me why I keep this old junk; well, that's her version of it. :jester:
 
Gliderman8 said:
You have to go back further for me to get to the good old days. I started using 8 inch floppy discs and punched paper tape.
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I still remember those days but not necessarily fondly. When I started with the national timeshare company, as the junior analyst I got the portable terminal. I was a teletype 33 with paper tape in a large suitcase. I had to carry the 300 baud phone coupler separately.
 
PAUL161 said:
I still have a shoebox full of the old 3" floppies. I also have a box full of the old 5" ones with Windows 3.1. I have no idea why they're still here. They're on a shelf somewhere. Even a few old 35 MM cameras floating around. My wife always asks me why I keep this old junk; well, that's her version of it. :jester:
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Mrs JP has a Husqvarna Viking Designer 1 sewing machine (embroidery) The patterns are still loaded off a 3 1/2 floppy. We have an ancient IMB touchpad - that I think has Windows 98 to run it - every time we use it it is an adventure remembering how to boot it as the bios battery is also dead.
 
JP - if that BIOS battery is dead, the device could stop identifying things like keyboard, trackpad, memory, storage, and any connections to it.

just sayin'

Tom M.
 
NutmegCT said:
JP - if that BIOS battery is dead, the device could stop identifying things like keyboard, trackpad, memory, storage, and any connections to it.

just sayin'

Tom M.
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well let me say something is dead because it has to find the settings every time.
 
NutmegCT said:
JP - if that BIOS battery is dead, the device could stop identifying things like keyboard, trackpad, memory, storage, and any connections to it.

just sayin'

Tom M.
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Probably the worst is not recognizing a discreet video card. Once you replace the battery, the BIOS defaults to the integrated video. So you get no signal until you change the video cable from your card back to the motherboard. Then you can go into the BIOS, select the cool video card again, save, change cable back, reboot.
 
Used to use Fortran, Assembler, PL/1 and Cobol. Spent most of my career not writing code but as "I don't know what to do, help me" tech support guy on the MF.
 
talk about memories ! When I got my first cp/m machine, I was into Fortran, Cobol, C, Forth, Ada, and various flavors of BASIC. I still have my Osborne 1 "luggable computer".

Does the phrase "hello world" sound familiar?

Tom M.
 
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