I loved the island guy and the bad dog ones. Loved After Dark
I remember aged 5 watching my dad install Windows 95 from the floppy disk edition. I think that took like a dozen or so floppies?
I remember not having the internet because “why would that be interesting at home? That’s something you use at work”!
Let’s just say my first computer did not have one of those cup holder trays but my second computer did.
My very first full time job had an ‘internet computer’!
I only just lost those beautiful speakers… Power cord was failing, but they still played good audio and the bass connector was a beast.
I would’ve replaced the cord!
I would have too :( It was purged in a major clean while I had it stored at a familys place.
You guys gave guis?
Yes, they help make my terminal prettier.
Shit, I’m old…
If you stare at it long enough the clouds start to move a little
God, same. I’m actually using that currently on my laptop.
It’s on my old netbook, it will never leave.
That thing is nearing 20 now I think!
I need someone do this with XP
XP was my last windows before I switched to Linux btw
Sounds like a very sane choice!
I use Ubuntu ever since 🤓 but don’t tell the arch nerds
“it’s now safe to turn off your computer”
That’s how old I am
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Fuck
I feel you man. Very nostalgic!
The one I remember best was having to use the DOS ‘park’ command before you shut down the PC. I guess I am that old.
I’m right there with ya. Don’t forget to make sure you set the interleaving correctly on your Winchester drive!
Huh, never ever seen that. We always used the rule "yoi can shutdown the computer when you can see the C:".
What does park do? Put the HDD arm into a parked position? Never needed that for ours, but we also had a blazingly fast 486 with a massive 250 MB hdd.
Yeah, old drives didn’t autopark like the IDE drive in your spiffy 486. I had an XT growing up, and dad was militant about having us remember to park the drive when we were done with it. I think by the end of the 80s, all drives were IDE and were autoparking, so the command was deprecated.
I never had to do that, because our computer didn’t have a hard drive. We booted DOS right from the floppy.
Damn, I had a Tandy 1000HX (very much not a 486) and never had to do that. Maybe because, despite having a hard disk, it had DOS on its own ROM.
Cool, I’ve wanted an OS ROM chip since the early nineties, and often wondered why nobody seemed to be doing it. Guess they were all along!
You technically didn’t have to park the old MFM and RLL drives, but if you didn’t, then you just had the drive heads resting on the platters after you shut them down. Then if you bumped or moved the PC at that time, it could scratch the disk like a record. If you never tried to move it, there probably wasn’t much risk.
From the sound of it, the HDD in your Tandy probably would have been an MFM or RLL drive, and depending on the drive model, it either autoparked the drive heads or didn’t. As a PC clone running MS-DOS, the command was probably supported, but maybe not needed. Or you may have just been the equivalent of one of those rebels who held down the power button every time they wanted to shut down the PC and always got away with it!
Yup. Thankfully that “feature” went away real quick and it became automatic.
And the power switch was like KA-JUNK when you pushed it, because it was a big ol’ switch that actually physically connected and disconnected the power.
“It’s now safe to turn off your computer” went away after we moved to software power control, where the operating system could signal the power supply to turn off.
I had my computer plugged into a power bar and we’d turn off the power bar to turn off the computer so that we wouldn’t wear out the switch on the computer.
People actually thought you’d have a computer long enough to wear out its power switch.
I knew far, far too many people in HS that just hit the power button without actually shutting it down.
Is that Windows 95?
Any Windows machine that does not support ACPI or has it disabled. IIRC Windows has required ACPI since Vista.
95/98 and ME/XP to a far lesser extent but it was 98 for me lol
I had a friend who edited the .jpeg or whatever in the shutdown sequence to say “it is NOT safe to shut off your computer” and waited for his family to freak out.
I had to type “/win” to boot up Windows
Into what did you type that? Wouldn’t something already have to have booted first in order to type it?
Oh gawd, there are people that don’t know DOS.
FACK…
I know about DOS if that helps? I’m not too far off from having used it though, I bet. I’m 38.
Yeah you have no excuse
MS-DOS
Dos, windows was just a normal dos program you had to start like anything else until windows 95
And when Win95 booted, you exited into the DOS prompt, the true gaming environment at the time.
I assume MS-DOS.
This PC booted up in DOS
Someone with more skill and time than me should do one of these for System 7 Macs.
Mortal Pongbat, Netscape, ResEdit for hacking games, Oscar in the Trash Can, Marathon, MacAddict CDs.
Good times.
NCSA Mosaic is how old I am…
mine
I once knew a woman who used cut up punch cards as spacers when rolling joints.
Ok yeah I’m definitely that old
Those speakers were great though!
my grandma had those and tgey would predict incoming phone calls
