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Today while looking for proof of license documents for various bits of software at work, I ran across a truly ancient piece of software. Microsoft Word V1.0 on 5 1/4 floppy. Found one of the old 10 inchers too in a back closet, but there is no lable so we have no diea what is on it. Kind of cool though.
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Frame that bad boy. That's an objet d'art.
i still have my commodore 64. now this thing is a real piece of work, the instruction book tells you how to type 2 pages of code just to make the damn thing beep lol.
We still have and use controllers at work that use those big ole 7 inch floppies.
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I ran across a truly ancient piece of software. Microsoft Word V1.0 on 5 1/4 floppy.
Sadly its probably more stable, and much more secure than the current version
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Dread Lord Kaolian wrote:
Today while looking for proof of license documents for various bits of software at work, I ran across a truly ancient piece of software. Microsoft Word V1.0 on 5 1/4 floppy. Found one of the old 10 inchers too in a back closet, but there is no lable so we have no diea what is on it. Kind of cool though.
I spend too much time around computer nerds...
I find that strangely erotic.
"As the now erect floppy disk slowly is insterted into the slot..."
Wow, that's hot.
Wow, that's hot.
↓His opinion is ****.↓
sheebasaurusrex wrote:
I spend too much time around computer nerds...
I find that strangely erotic.
Intelligence is always erotic.
I remember playing Zork with those huge floppy disks. Oh, and my sheer amazement when my dad got a computer that HAD COLOR GRAPHICS OMG1!!11!
sheebasaurusrex wrote:
Dread Lord Kaolian wrote:
Today while looking for proof of license documents for various bits of software at work, I ran across a truly ancient piece of software. Microsoft Word V1.0 on 5 1/4 floppy. Found one of the old 10 inchers too in a back closet, but there is no lable so we have no diea what is on it. Kind of cool though.
I spend too much time around computer nerds...
I find that strangely erotic.
Nerds are UberSexy!!!!
melbolt wrote:
i still have my commodore 64. now this thing is a real piece of work, the instruction book tells you how to type 2 pages of code just to make the damn thing beep lol.
Commodore VIC-20
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
Apple ][, baby, first RAM I ever bought was for the Apple ][gs, and it was US$100 for 128k of ram. Yes, 128 kilobytes, or about one ninth of a single meg of ram.
So I had John Madden 2, circa 1993, on 5.25" disk and I just got Madden '04 and - I kid you not - there are things I can do in Madden 2 - the eleven year old version - that I cannot do in '04, like "roll the pocket" and "trap block". For years, I had an actual 5.25" drive that I would plug in to various "modern" computers for the express purpose of loading this gem onto them but now it's really too much of a pain to get them to run slow enough without becoming jerky, (and yes I do know about moslo, the utility for doing this sort of thing).
So I had John Madden 2, circa 1993, on 5.25" disk and I just got Madden '04 and - I kid you not - there are things I can do in Madden 2 - the eleven year old version - that I cannot do in '04, like "roll the pocket" and "trap block". For years, I had an actual 5.25" drive that I would plug in to various "modern" computers for the express purpose of loading this gem onto them but now it's really too much of a pain to get them to run slow enough without becoming jerky, (and yes I do know about moslo, the utility for doing this sort of thing).
I just threw out my old 286 (now with 4 meg RAM!!!!!), which I'd been keeping for sentimental purposes and lavishing upon/************ over every few weeks. I did strip the hard drive so all my l33t WP poetry could be saved and the aliens from the future could say "OMG Palpitus was liek poet laureate and sh[/b]it except he sucked". BTW my three-fingered claw attack will kill any of you, it has 1d8+22,345 damage and 2 delay, I will kill you with my leather gherkin and radish you with my pancake suprise. You have no chance to redeem yourself in my eyes, thus The Lord's Eyes. Ha-HA! My CPU is cold hard steel with 128 Megaf[b]ucks of Fu[b][/b]ck You, 3.5" of rock hard pwnage ha-HA! Okay, I'm drunk just disregard this post, eh wot???
Who remembers Oregon Trail?
Critters shall fear my 8 pixel single-shot rectangle!
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Who remembers Oregon Trail?
damn, i love that game, they made us play that in elementary school. I'm gonna have to download that and play it for old times sake now.
btw, did anyone every play that text based game where you input commands like "take" "turn right" "look", etc? it was an ms-dos based game, i love that but i forget the title, been dying to play it again.
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Who remembers Oregon Trail?
Yes! I loved that game. I usually died before I could make it though, lol.
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melbolt wrote:
[quote]btw, did anyone every play that text based game where you input commands like "take" "turn right" "look", etc? it was an ms-dos based game, i love that but i forget the title, been dying to play it again.
Text-based adventures? There's been a million of 'em. Castle I think was a popular one. I had "Leather Goddesses of Phobos".
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
And yes, Oregon Trail was the BOMB! Apple IIe's were the greatest things in the world!
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
Kao, if you want it, I can see if I can dig up the copy of Windows 3.1, still in the original factoy shrinkwrap, along with the windows for workgroups upgrade.
Edited, Wed Feb 16 10:52:10 2005 by scubamage
Edited, Wed Feb 16 10:52:10 2005 by scubamage
Overlord AngstyCoder wrote:
My Computers:
Vic 20
C64
Atari 2600
Amiga 500
Amiga 2000
Amiga 4000
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Comodore dies
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286
386 sx16
386 dx33
486 dx4 120
PII 333
AMD Athlon 2000+
Vic 20
C64
Atari 2600
Amiga 500
Amiga 2000
Amiga 4000
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Comodore dies
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286
386 sx16
386 dx33
486 dx4 120
PII 333
AMD Athlon 2000+
If you still hav the Amigas, open up the case. Check out the silk screened text on the motherboard. You should notice something familiar, yet terrifying.
They have the lyrics to Rock Lobster (By the B-52's printed on them).
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Apple IIe's were the greatest things in the world!
I wish I could agree, but my family was anti-Mac before being anti-Mac was popular. I'd be disowned. Apparently *nix machines sucked *** as well, though allowances were made there so that I could finish college. Only IBM and Atari were worthy of entering my childhood. I was using DOS about the time I was learning to read, while my dad, only a few years later, found himself working with computer professionals who said DOS was "too hard" and would only use windows 3.1.
He was so proud of me. :)
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I wish I could agree, but my family was anti-Mac before being anti-Mac was popular.
Hahaha... that's always been popular. It's just expected when they took such a great technological leap forward, but still gave you only one mouse button (for years) because 'more was confusing'. Putzes!!!
Myself:
Commie Vic-20
Commie 64
TI-99/4A (oh man, besides Hunt the Wumpus this thing was pretty useless without $4000 in upgrades - and yes you could get a modem, floppy drives and 64k of memory for this thing if you _really_ wanted to)
286, 386, 486, Pent, etc - dozens of various boxes over the years
Once in a while I'll break out the Commie and play some classic 'Seven Cities of Gold', 'Wizball, or 'Mail Order Monsters'. MOM needs to be redone... it would rule with modern graphics!
Edited, Wed Feb 16 11:51:09 2005 by Mindwalker
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