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# The 3.11 era was a golden age of computing.
At least, it is to me.

Probably because that's when I bought a PC. Oh, happy days of reading the MS-DOS manual (usually at bedtime) and re-writing autoexec.bat and config.sys for my friends... *sigh*
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 15 Jan 2004, 14:55, archived)
# i properly started
around 95.

but had much fun in dos 6.22 on my 486 :-)
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Kitteny Berk almost certainly drunk, Thu 15 Jan 2004, 14:57, archived)
# I miss DOS.
You could look really clever using it, even though you were doing something ridiculously simple.
Oh, how I'd pour quiet scorn on people with only MS-DOS 6.2 (or 5! Ha!) and Windows 3.1...
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 15 Jan 2004, 15:00, archived)
# the trick to look clever
not only in dos, but on any computer system, is to work very, very quickly
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Kitteny Berk almost certainly drunk, Thu 15 Jan 2004, 15:03, archived)
# True, very true.
But nothing really beats typing non-words into a text prompt:

"What's that your typing? cd? Wossat? see, colon, slice, windows, slice..."
"How come when you type D I R it comes up in a table? I just get a big list that runs of the top of the screen..."
Total bafflement! Woo!
I'm pretty sure I'm doing a terrible disservice, here, to everyone who knows me.
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 15 Jan 2004, 15:07, archived)
# hehehe
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Kitteny Berk almost certainly drunk, Thu 15 Jan 2004, 15:13, archived)
# How do you do the DIR trick?
I always wondered...

but at the time I was using my ADB mouse to run a 'proper' operating system...

Where did Apple go wrong?
(I helped save b3ta! Duncan Disorderly, Thu 15 Jan 2004, 15:28, archived)
# Learn how to use a Unix shell
(get cygwin if you don't want to install a different OS on your computer). Using the command line always impresses people. Not the laydeez though, unfortunately.
(I helped save b3ta! azerty, Thu 15 Jan 2004, 15:07, archived)
# I think GUIs have ruined me now.
I'm slightly terrified of command line interfaces now. :(
Mind you, my girlfriend's mum is a programmer, and I know me using Unix would impress her...
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 15 Jan 2004, 15:11, archived)
# Unless you're really eager to
either marry your girlfriend (or her mum?) or to get a job as a Unix geek, that'd not be worth the effort, I guess.
(I helped save b3ta! azerty, Thu 15 Jan 2004, 15:18, archived)
# Youngsters, eh?
I started in 1984 on a VIC 20 ... didn't have any software, so I had to write my own games.

/shows age
(I helped save b3ta! azerty, Thu 15 Jan 2004, 15:04, archived)
# hehe
i'm only 18, so tad before my time.


did do some bits and piced on an amstrad cpc464 though :-)
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Kitteny Berk almost certainly drunk, Thu 15 Jan 2004, 15:06, archived)
# I had a Speccy (+2 then +3) and an Amiga 500.
But I only started to learn when we got the PC.
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 15 Jan 2004, 15:09, archived)