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Re: A Company of Misfits
« Reply #300 on: March 24, 2009, 02:22:29 am »
coffee = yum.  :laugh:
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Re: A Company of Misfits
« Reply #301 on: March 24, 2009, 10:46:48 am »
Quote from: riven_one on March 23, 2009, 09:18:48 pm
I had one of the original ibm pcs. It sported 128kb of memory LOL..... The tech came out and installed another 128kb of memory, and a 2nd floppy drive. The upgrade consisted of dozens of 16kb dram chips that he had to press into the motherboard one by one. They came in a long tube.

It was cool because I could leave the dos disk in drive A, and my word processing disk (wordstar) in drive B. Then one day I scrounged up a 10mb hard disk, and the fun really began.

Our boss had a 4mb "above board" card in his pc. It took something called an "expanded memory manager" to use it. We all sat around trying to decide who would EVER need that much memory  ???  :D
DOS 3.3 was great.

I used to run it on a IBM PC with a 20 MB HDD, 2 floppy drives, and 640K of RAM. I had different DOS 3.3 boot disks with different utilities and tools based on what I needed to do.
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Re: A Company of Misfits
« Reply #302 on: March 24, 2009, 01:38:12 pm »
Quote from: Shades O'Grey on March 24, 2009, 10:46:48 am
DOS 3.3 was great.

I used to run it on a IBM PC with a 20 MB HDD, 2 floppy drives, and 640K of RAM. I had different DOS 3.3 boot disks with different utilities and tools based on what I needed to do.

Yeah, but dos 4.0 was a disaster. Thank god for DR Dos or microsoft would have been content to stick with 4.0 forever.

Much of what I know now is because of the primitive nature of those early computers (irqs, dmas, memory maps, etc) and having to dive in and fix them and program them. Windows programming (when it first came out) was akin to programming on the bare metal.

I find that people nowadays have no clue what's going on inside the machine and I get a lot of "fix it" jobs from friends and neighbors.
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Re: A Company of Misfits
« Reply #303 on: March 24, 2009, 01:41:47 pm »
Yeah, I had heard enough horror stories to keep me from trying DOS 4. I went from 3.3 straight to 6. I had even mastered EDLIN, but the text editor built into DOS 6 was better.
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Re: A Company of Misfits
« Reply #304 on: March 25, 2009, 02:57:52 pm »
...no more computer talk... :icon_headache:  i'm not computer literate enough to join in.  :'(

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Quote from: Nicky on March 23, 2009, 10:50:50 pm
...and at the heart of the forest is a shrine to the great Fresh Roast Coffee Bean Roaster. It is a place of quiet contemplation and a place to receive an excellent cup of coffee, but if you are in a hurry and of common disposition you can also pop next door to the quickymart where the owner, Tangerine Machine, crafts a mean brew at a fraction of the price...
I'm guessing the shrine is next to Candy Mountain?
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Re: A Company of Misfits
« Reply #305 on: March 25, 2009, 03:11:45 pm »
Quote from: Jaimey on March 25, 2009, 02:57:52 pm
I'm guessing the shrine is next to Candy Mountain?
Yes, and the Bagel Barrows can be found just a short jaunt away.
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Re: A Company of Misfits
« Reply #306 on: March 25, 2009, 09:24:29 pm »
Quote from: Shades O'Grey on March 25, 2009, 03:11:45 pm
Yes, and the Bagel Barrows can be found just a short jaunt away.

Tasty.
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“How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” GWC
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