Is Linux the new DOS
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@scottalanmiller Yeah, it was called Computer something or other and it was on PBS I think, he was a host for a while. They used to re-air that a long time ago.
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I don't think it was PBS I would have seen it.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I don't think it was PBS I would have seen it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Chronicles
Yeah, PBS
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That's definitely the one. Must not have been syndicated where I grew up.
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Bits & Bytes we had and it was epic. LOVE that show, even now.
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So you linked this topic in another thread, and I just read through this. Did anyone else use HDM on DOS?
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Not me, what did it do?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Not me, what did it do?
It was just a menu system. The left were pages and the right had the items you could run. You had to manually put everything in the menu, but then you could just hit the number that corresponded to your program.
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I used something like that, but can't remember the name of it. I think it was built into DOS v6 or maybe one of the 5's
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I just remember running this on my 386 as a kid and playing Wolfenstein. Before that I had a Tandy 2000 with dual 5.25" floppy drives.
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I was already off of DOS by that era.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I was already off of DOS by that era.
I was 4 when I had the Tandy. 6 with the 386.
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The first computer I remember was my Dad's 286... The first one I had was a 486 with math coprocessor and 4MB of RAM (it was a hand me down)
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I was already off of DOS by that era.
I was 4 when I had the Tandy. 6 with the 386.
Whipper snapper.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I was already off of DOS by that era.
I was 4 when I had the Tandy. 6 with the 386.
Whipper snapper.
Haha, they were hand me downs from my dad. He had a side shop. He also did estimating for a paving company and managed their PDP-11.
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My dad, @SonshineAcres ran PDP-8 and PDP-11 as well!
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@johnhooks said:
So you linked this topic in another thread, and I just read through this. Did anyone else use HDM on DOS?
In middle and high school we had something like that. It was a hand coded console graphics and batch programs that would run what you chose. You're taking me back. It might have originally been made on a program like that, but the students quickly learned how to customize it.
