Turning on the tower with your foot…yeah, that unlocks some memories, lol.
I only know what half of these things are 😅
The standard 5” floppy. The best part was putting down the latch on the drive and that sweet sound it made.
Eh… Windows 7 background ain’t THAT old. Still the best OS they made.
is this for jerma specifically because of the time he accidentally turned his computer off with his foot
Heh, this is brand new software and tech as far as I’m concerned. I remember when the computer did not automatically boot into windows and you had to cd c:\windows and then win.exe.
LOAD “*”, 8, 1Honestly it feels new to me too. I just thought the meme would spark some nostalgia for all us old(er) people who like to complain about the youngsters
Heh, the days when the six 3.5" floppies of Wing Commander was a huge install and often required a hard disk clean out.
I’m old enough to remember when the Internet was this for us:
They’ve been trying to bring back online walled-garden systems ever since. Just look at Facebook, or Twitter.
Somehow I’m using the default wallpaper on both w10 and android since I’m older, I just don’t care anymore while before it used to be very important lol
Yeah, I couldn’t even tell you what my background is. I used to have a slideshow of them.
Images you can hear
It’s not safe to turn off your computer.
There are enemies nearby.Random tangent, my dad edited the system file that contained that message to “It’s not safe to turn off your computer” when I was like 5 and it kinda fucked me up for a bit.
“it’s now safe to turn off your computer”
That’s how old I am
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Fuck
I had a friend who edited the .jpeg or whatever in the shutdown sequence to say “it is NOT safe to shut off your computer” and waited for his family to freak out.
And the power switch was like KA-JUNK when you pushed it, because it was a big ol’ switch that actually physically connected and disconnected the power.
“It’s now safe to turn off your computer” went away after we moved to software power control, where the operating system could signal the power supply to turn off.
I had my computer plugged into a power bar and we’d turn off the power bar to turn off the computer so that we wouldn’t wear out the switch on the computer.
People actually thought you’d have a computer long enough to wear out its power switch.
I knew far, far too many people in HS that just hit the power button without actually shutting it down.
The one I remember best was having to use the DOS ‘park’ command before you shut down the PC. I guess I am that old.
Huh, never ever seen that. We always used the rule "you can shutdown the computer when you can see the C:".
What does park do? Put the HDD arm into a parked position? Never needed that for ours, but we also had a blazingly fast 486 with a massive 250 MB hdd.
Yeah, old drives didn’t autopark like the IDE drive in your spiffy 486. I had an XT growing up, and dad was militant about having us remember to park the drive when we were done with it. I think by the end of the 80s, all drives were IDE and were autoparking, so the command was deprecated.
Damn, I had a Tandy 1000HX (very much not a 486) and never had to do that. Maybe because, despite having a hard disk, it had DOS on its own ROM.
Cool, I’ve wanted an OS ROM chip since the early nineties, and often wondered why nobody seemed to be doing it. Guess they were all along!
You technically didn’t have to park the old MFM and RLL drives, but if you didn’t, then you just had the drive heads resting on the platters after you shut them down. Then if you bumped or moved the PC at that time, it could scratch the disk like a record. If you never tried to move it, there probably wasn’t much risk.
From the sound of it, the HDD in your Tandy probably would have been an MFM or RLL drive, and depending on the drive model, it either autoparked the drive heads or didn’t. As a PC clone running MS-DOS, the command was probably supported, but maybe not needed. Or you may have just been the equivalent of one of those rebels who held down the power button every time they wanted to shut down the PC and always got away with it!
I never had to do that, because our computer didn’t have a hard drive. We booted DOS right from the floppy.
I’m right there with ya. Don’t forget to make sure you set the interleaving correctly on your Winchester drive!
Yup. Thankfully that “feature” went away real quick and it became automatic.
I had to type “/win” to boot up Windows
Into what did you type that? Wouldn’t something already have to have booted first in order to type it?
Oh gawd, there are people that don’t know DOS.
FACK…
I know about DOS if that helps? I’m not too far off from having used it though, I bet. I’m 38.
Yeah you have no excuse
Dos, windows was just a normal dos program you had to start like anything else until windows 95
And when Win95 booted, you exited into the DOS prompt, the true gaming environment at the time.
This PC booted up in DOS
MS-DOS
I assume MS-DOS.
Is that Windows 95?
95/98 and ME/XP to a far lesser extent but it was 98 for me lol
Any Windows machine that does not support ACPI or has it disabled. IIRC Windows has required ACPI since Vista.
I feel you man. Very nostalgic!
The ole AT power supply standard. Nice.
A:>
I see people be like “can we use b: for the backup drive” and it just feels wrong.
I’m “boot from A:, keep user files on B:” years old
I myself was a Norton commander enjoyer
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did you use that as a child? I was posting my first computer
…is that the demo?..
😂
…we had the
40162001N with an external tape drive: not quite as much geek-cred as the original 2001, but still respectable…Mine was a TI 99/4a. Texas Instruments ‘computer’ of the same generation. Tape drive squealed like a modem. But nobody remembers modems now …
Ayyy childhood
Green Screen!
