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minus-squarevoodooattack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·3 days agoOld enough to remember using a 3½” floppy disk to boot my first PC and mess around with GW/Q-BASIC and play DOS games. The disks were strongly perfumed (I guess the guy I bought my pirated games from liked to do that for some reason), and I still remember that aroma.
minus-squareheavydust@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoOld enough to remember why computers with no hard drives had 2 floppy drives: OS in A:, application in B:.
minus-squarestate_electrician@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoconfig.sys and autoexec.bat gang.
minus-squareMathiasTCK@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoWhen you had to choose between booting your OS at all or loading Doom.
minus-squarevoodooattack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoFor real! (Or protected mode if that’s what your into)
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Old enough to remember using a 3½” floppy disk to boot my first PC and mess around with GW/Q-BASIC and play DOS games.
The disks were strongly perfumed (I guess the guy I bought my pirated games from liked to do that for some reason), and I still remember that aroma.
Old enough to remember why computers with no hard drives had 2 floppy drives: OS in A:, application in B:.
config.sys and autoexec.bat gang.
When you had to choose between booting your OS at all or loading Doom.
For real! (Or protected mode if that’s what your into)
This guy nibbles… And Gorillas