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I'm trying out the new black and gold page. Aside from looking very nice, It's much easier on the eyes I think. Black background takes a little getting used to. Reminds me of the old DOS days before windows, where everything was typed on a black screen. I had a program back then, I think it was word perfect or it's predecessor, that had 56 different hand typed commands to get to various places in the program. Talk about the dark ages.
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Oh I forgot to say, my computer was an old Commodore with a 5 inch screen. Been so long, I think I ran it off of 5 1/2 inch floppies. No hard drive! How'd I get on this subject.
 
Paul - bet you a six pack you were using WordStar.

I used WordStar back in the early 1980s when I was doing my doctoral work. Old CP/M operating system on my Osborne "portable" computer with the 5 inch screen. Edit: I still have that old Osborne - and it still works!

There was no mouse and no cursor keys, so ...

Cursor right one letter: CTRL-D
Cursor left one letter: CTRL-S
Cursor right one word: CTRL-F
Cursor left one word: CTRL-A
Cursor up one line: CTRL-E
Cursor down one line: CTRL-X

The layout of those keys were the "star" in WordStar.

Does this look familiar?

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My Commodore had a green screen and a tape drive. I dreamed of having a 1541 5.25 floppy drive! Eventually I had two of them so I could make copies of disks, and was the envy of all my friends. Of course one friend had a cartridge-making device so he was the envy of everyone including me.

I used CP/M for quite some time, mainly for Fox Base and Word Star on an Osbourne II Portable.
 
Our last DOS machine had the black screen as well. Typing a reply is quite the throwback!

I have, naturally, dubbed this scheme "the JPS"

-Wm.
 
NutmegCT said:
Paul - bet you a six pack you were using WordStar.
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That's it! I knew it had "word" in it! Man, that seams like a hundred years ago. You'll probably think I'm crazy, but I still have a box of the old 5 1/2/floppies in a shoe box somewhere. Must have 50 or more of them. I even have a later set of the NEW "Windows 3.1" on 5 1/2s. I guess I'm just a pack rat.
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OK, OK, Sorry Tom. Here you go! I owe you one.
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you've obviously never been to LaCrosse, WI?

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"WordStar" "CP/M-80"

wow.

I juggled between CP/M-80 and DOS 2.11 with an Epson 8088 lump. Thought that was HOT stuff. No HD, just two 5.25" FD's.

This past weekend I rediscovered my 3.5" "converter" punch. 720K to 1.44M in the blink of an eye...

"Good old Days" my butt.

I very much LIKE the term: "Terabyte" and all it connotes. :laugh:

...and non-disk hard "drives". Another term soon to hit the ashpile of computer history. YAY!

Anybody got a copy of the Library of Congress in their pocket yet? :smirk:
 
Doc, you think hard drives are on there way out, as to big chips?
 
SSDs are already here (Solid State Drives). Their size is still too small to be the only storage in a computer, but that's only a matter of time.
 
Greg, looking up SSDs, I found Toshiba is making a 512GB SSD drive. The speed is supposed to be faster than conventional drives. Like you said, it's a matter of time.
 
Not just faster, but quieter, cooler and far more power-efficient. They just cost too much right now. Their lifespan is also questionable since there is a limited number of writes that can be performed.
 
Quit hittn' me with those negative waves, Steve. :jester:
 
An' here I thought this thread was about a Pittsburgh "football" team.... :devilgrin:


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It was half positive, half negative. Therefore my whole post was null.
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sheesh.


BUDDHIST!! :jester:
 
Ive been using SSD on some of my HMI human machine iterface jobs now for a couple years. Industrial PLC"s I'd say were getting closer to it than some people belive. The Allen Bradley stuff is getting to where you would swear its a full blown PC. fast and this don't crash EVER!
 
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