krcroft wrote:Caluser2000 wrote:Some old Dos disks I found today searching through my 5.25" floppy stash.
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Thanks for the great pictures! Back in the day I only hand Microsoft's DOS floppies and Falcon 4's floppies in person; first time I've glimpsed Doctor DOS and Falcon 3.1. Also.. I can tell that sleeve on the Falcon floppy is of the un-rippable, super-smooth and satisfying variety! That sure brings back memories.
I'm glad the pic bought back fond memories. That Falcon disk was in a rather rough tatty envelope when it was given to me but found something better. I used DRDos 6.0 on my original 286/16 along with GeoWorks Pro 1.2, which supported the DrDos 6 task manager. So have a bit of fondness for them. A great combination at the time.
Never really used computers until about 1988 when I had to use them at work. Combination of Suns for drafting/technical stuff, Apple for document creation and PCs(mainly compaq) with WordStar on them doing most of the text work to pass on to the Macs. A lot of cut an pasting involved back then still though and I don't the computer kind. Wasn't introduced to MS Windows until I was posted to an outfit that had Windows 3.0 on a Novel Netware set up using 10Base2. Yes folks no Windows for Workgroups then. They were mainly Compaq 386s, see a trend? I remember a chap saying if I bought a computer the first thing you do is put in as much memory as you can. At that time a meg of ram was $NZ100. It's a joy when you get a machine of that era, early-mid '90s you have the ability to do that for almost nothing. IBM and MS were having a tiff. MS was having to deal with Digital Research to clean up there act with Dos features. Then Windows 3.x and OS/2 were all the rage. Ram doublers, hdd caches and things like DoubleSpace ads in every mag. Advice getting that last bit of conventional memory to play the latest game. Fun times.
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉