Comments on: Are you feeling bloated?

By: Grandad

Grandad — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:21:45 +0000

Gregory – You’re throwing Linux at me again. That confuses me. I wonder if I could put Windows 3.1 on a CD and do things that way?

By: Gregory

Gregory — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:09:18 +0000

Hey grandpa,
Do you need back a disk space in your laptop?
Tray it http://www.knoppix.org
It was a good word of bad linux geek

By: Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:44:39 +0000

Kirk, I bow to you, sir. I stand corrected. But, the important thing in my point of view, is that Billy boy didn’t receive all the proceeds from PC-Dos.

By: Kirk M

Kirk M — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:23:14 +0000

Ah Karyn,

I re-read one of your comments again and I correct my horrible mistake on the size of the floppies for that Apple IIE. It was the 5-1/4 inch.

By: Kirk M

Kirk M — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:56:11 +0000

JD,

Being another one of the old(er) computer geek type techs, I sincerely hate to tell you, since you seem to despise Billy boy so much (and why not?), that a young man named Bill Gates and his tiny, obscure company named Microsoft, developed PC DOS for IBM. Billy boy later broke away from IBM because they “restricted” him too much as far as further development was concerned.

I’m awful sorry about that.

By the way, my first business computer was an Apple IIE (Enhanced) with Apple Soft for an OS, 2 floppy drives (9 inch?), and no hard drive. Can anyone say “Open-Apple-Reset”?

And I loved IBM’s OS2. Too bad it died.

Ironically enough my wife still has hers stuffed in our hallway closet. We swear were going to haul it out one day and fire it up.

By: Grandad

Grandad — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:03:21 +0000

Rhodester – It’s behaving itself now. Vista is good for something!

JD – One of the reasons I got my first PC was Flight Simulator. Those lovely triangular wire-frame mountains! Ah! The good old days……

KirkM – I’m a bit wary ordering stuff like laptops from the States. Apart from the dangers of the shipping itself, they are talking here about slamming additional tax and duties on non-EU Internet orders.

Karyn – It’s a terrible pity that those disks are obsolete now. I would love to go into a computer store and ask where they keep their stiffies.

By: Karyn Romeis

Karyn Romeis — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:42:16 +0000

Grandad – of course I did. That’s what they’re called in South Africa. The 5 and 1/4″ ones were called floppies!

By: Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:44:55 +0000

Ah yes, I miss the SneakerNet! It is all about the GUI now days, Grandad. If we all went back to PC-Dos (Notice I didn’t say MS-DOS, because it was created by the evil scoundrel, Mr. Gates.), we’d probably be a lot smarter and better off. Of course, the little white blip would probably drive us all mad.

My first PC was actually my parents, but I used it anyway. It was a 286 running at the scorching speed of 12MHZ. It had 640k of memory and a 20 Mb hard drive. That bad boy had all of their accounting and business software on it, plus the first version of Microsoft (bastard) Flight Simulator.

By: Rhodester

Rhodester — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:06:35 +0000

you forgot to mention that your new laptop argues with you on a daily basis. We’ve come so far!

By: Kirk M

Kirk M — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:39:24 +0000

Hey Grandad,

You bring back some rather ancient memories (ancient as far as computers go anyway). My first PC was a Packard Bell 386SX33 with 2MB of memory, a 30MB hard drive, Windows 3.11 on top of DOS 5.0. I splurged $80.00 to bring it up to a whopping 4MB of RAM and I was in the butter zone baby. My first game was Wolfenstein. I blew away a whole lot of Nazi’s I tell you what.

Don’t like Dell all that well. Have you looked into Tiger Direct? I’ve been doing business with them for years and they’ve never let me down yet.