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[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

You setting up a new rig or something?

You need to read the PC thread.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=184267

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

You need to read the PC thread.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=184267

Now, Steve, be fair. Jim's here so seldom that he has to be very choosy about what threads he reads in the limited time available.

Originally Posted by Fish In The Water

Boy does that ever bring back memories... I used to do desktop technical support in a large call centre and they had us sorting out XP issues on rigs that were running Windows 2000.

Don't knock Win2000, I still look back on it fondly as a huge step up from the Win95 rigs we started out on.

[Fish In The Water]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Don't knock Win2000, I still look back on it fondly as a huge step up from the Win95 rigs we started out on.

Actually I started out on DOS then Windows 3.1 then '95...

While it's true each incarnation seemed like a huge step up, they were all very early in the era of the home PC. Kind of like going from Jurrasic to Cretaceous, a noticeable improvement but still very primitive.

[U2222]

Hey Frau Kaleun and Fish In The water....
All this talk about DOS, Win 3.1 and 95 - you are giving your ages away .
Remember the old customised floppy boot disk to get your software running
....and how smart programmers were then to fit games onto a handfull of floppies
...ah those were the days....

[frau kaleun]

I never used Windows 3.1 but I can sure remember buying software that still came on floppies. Our first PCs at work didn't even have CD drives, which made it interesting when you needed to install or reinstall, say, MS Word or Outlook or the software that made your printer work, all of which came on CD.

And I can still remember the HDD on my first work computer... it was a whole 1 gigabyte!

[Jimbuna]

Aye reminds me of my first 'fast' chip, an 888Mhz with a whopping 1 1/2GB HD

[Fish In The Water]

Originally Posted by U2222

....and how smart programmers were then to fit games onto a handfull of floppies
...ah those were the days....

I can remember playing the old King's Quest by Sierra. It came on something like 17 floppy disks, and being an adventure game, you had to change floppies (and wait for it to load) almost every time you walked off the edge of the screen.

It went something like this:

Walk, walk, walk...

Please insert disk 13...

Okay where's disk 13?

Oh, there it is...

Okay open the door and remove disk 7...

Insert disk 13 and close door...

Wait ,wait and wait some more for that awesome floppy seek time...

Walk across the screen and repeat...

[frau kaleun]

Ordered some Lysol No-Touch Hand Soap refills, $25.95.

[Sailor Steve]

I recently (like last week) bought a new computer chair. The cheapo plastic lawn chair made me so sore I couldn't take it anymore. $106 smackaroons.