On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 08:35 +0100, Keith Watson wrote:
From: Wayne Stallwood Sent: 06 July 2005 22:11
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:43 +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
Before Amstrad got their grubby paws on it, then :) God, I remember the days of autoexec.bat and config.sys, and am very glad
that I don't
have to deal with that any more :)
Actually I sort of miss those days.
I remember hours of fun trying to balance loaded TSR's with available (and pretty scarce) RAM. Oh and remember the different areas of Ram Extended and Expanded wasn't it ? PC Tools and early versions of Norton Utils ?
Not forgetting having to use Debug to low level format Hard Drives and manually parking heads before moving machines.
OK you're right it wasn't that much fun was it :-)
<nostalgia> Ahh!! </nostalgia>
and let's not forget punched cards and..... paper tape.
Oh! those were the days.
Regards,
Keith ____________ EGOTIST, n. - A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary
Yep, you're quite right Keith, we should stop living in the past. But it is nice to talk about these things at times.
I have never used punched cards or paper tape, sorry. However, if you want to have a chat via Morse Code that's another story, I'm all in favour of that!!
Cheers
peter
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