And historical exploration, from DOS to Seven
"Daddy, what's a floppy drive?"
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Gullibility really does destroy lives. A Vietnamese couple in Australia, the Trans, were missing a purse, so they made mistake #1: they went to a fortune teller to find out where it was. Really, magic doesn't work.
DOS stands for Disk Operating System.
Evolution in Science Education - Bill Nye on Evolution in Science Education - Popular Mechanics
Interesting new look, could do with a coat of paint, some decor and maybe a pic on the wall, eh?
Lets take this for a spin and see how it works.
To dos:
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Hm, does ð html coding work?
Awesome.
That was quite a trip down memory lane. But...
...he named his computer "Twatface"?
It was interesting, but I was also taken by the name "Twatface".
That must have hurt.
The title reminds me that my workplace still, I believe, has a claw hammer labeled "windows system configuration tool."
I have an instrument at work, still occasionally used, that runs off a computer using DOS, it's been there for at least the decades I've been here.
Also, I don't get the whole disappointment with the color scheme not carrying over. Meh.
dos 6 was the last stable OS produced by MS.
OS/2 would even sorta multitask DOS apps.
the first versions of windows were also snail slow.
3.11 was the best of the early versions.
and somewhere, i still have a single sided 8" floppy...
3.11 - aaargh my first computer industry job was tech support at an ISP and I hated trying to explain on the phone how to get their computer connected to the Internet.