Software Nostalgia....
Jan 24, 2007, 12:17 pm
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Jan 24, 2007, 12:29 pm
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Wow y'all are going way back! I was thinking about "recent history" like Microsoft Bob 
I mentioned that to one of my 20something coworkers, she looked at me like I was one of *those* CP/M command-line dinosaurs longing for the days of old. 
But then I hit her with the Wayback Machine and extolled my tales of hacking my trusty TI-99/4A WITH the peripheral expansion box, 32K memory expansion card, TI Extended BASIC cartridge, TI color monitor AND an Epson dot matrix printer...man, I was The Sh!t on my block!
I mentioned that to one of my 20something coworkers, she looked at me like I was one of *those* CP/M command-line dinosaurs longing for the days of old. But then I hit her with the Wayback Machine and extolled my tales of hacking my trusty TI-99/4A WITH the peripheral expansion box, 32K memory expansion card, TI Extended BASIC cartridge, TI color monitor AND an Epson dot matrix printer...man, I was The Sh!t on my block!
Jan 24, 2007, 2:05 pm
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I still have new, unopened packages of SunOS compilers, Netscape Suitespot servers, Lotus Domino Server, and a few others. None of those will run on my Heathkit H-8, though.
Jan 24, 2007, 2:31 pm
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But then I hit her with the Wayback Machine and extolled my tales of hacking my trusty TI-99/4A
Jan 24, 2007, 5:27 pm
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Oh yeah. And connecting to Compuserve. And Easy Sabre (RIP)
Jan 24, 2007, 7:32 pm
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another vote for Lotus
I'm still using Lotus SmartSuite v. 9x. WordPro has always been a far superior program to Word, which I hate but have to use for some clients.
Jan 24, 2007, 10:12 pm
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I remember SuperCalc II, and how I had to add an extra 64K of memory because my spreadsheets were getting too big.
This was when I had a dual floppy drive before hard drives.
I also had a TSR pop-up note manager that had my address book and I would log my phone calls in. I can't remember the name.
This was when I had a dual floppy drive before hard drives.
I also had a TSR pop-up note manager that had my address book and I would log my phone calls in. I can't remember the name.
Jan 25, 2007, 12:54 am
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Xtree, Xtree Pro, Word Perfect with swappable floppies, 286's running "turbo" at 10 mhz, Compuserve email and forums(!) at 300 baud, Quicken for DOS, whew! Steep learning curves for someone like me who is not a techie, just a user trying to run a small business.
Remember we all thought that our machines would mean less work for eveyone instead of everyone doing the work of 5 people?
Remember we all thought that our machines would mean less work for eveyone instead of everyone doing the work of 5 people?
Jan 25, 2007, 4:11 am
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If it comes to that, SOAP (Symbolic Optimizing Assembly Program, not today's Web services access prototol of the same acronym) and the Bell 1 interpreter on a vacuum-tube IBM 650.
Top that one, kiddies.
Top that one, kiddies.