Outdated Computer Terms

[madires]

fidonet

Still alive and up-to-date ;-)

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[jancumps]

Norton Utilities
PC Tools

[Joule Thief]

Lotus 123 macro
XT and AT compatable
add an extra 64K for just $299

[carpelux]

Ahh - CP/M sweet memories

PIP destination=source

[Alana]

Norton Commander kinda disapered with DOS/W311

[SeanB]

Funny, I was using it until win98, as it was so much better than Exploder. Too bad it did not move, a dual file window was very usable, just it did not support long file names ( or at least the one i was using did not) and could wreak havoc on a system with more than 1G or disk space when it ran out of cylinders.

[madires]

Norton Commander kinda disapered with DOS/W311

Download Total Commander 

[manticore00]

Comdex

Back in my teenage years I convinced my dad to take me to one of the last Comdex trade shows in Las Vegas.

[Tepe]

COMAL

[Macbeth]

How about LOAD "*",8,1 and then going off to toast a sandwich, make a cuppa etc...

Ah, the 1541, the slowest disk drive in the known universe.

It was a serial disk drive, it even had it's own 6502 CPU onboard, yet it was slower than the C64 tapes with turbo loaders. Whoever designed it should have been shot. Also having to LOAD "*",8,1 would wipe out your own BASIC program with a pile of crud DIR listing.

I had a BBC Model B back then and the drives were like lightning compared to that POS. I even found a way of saving BBC BASIC libraries of code to disk and *LOAD'ing them at random bits of memory space as a kind of paged RAM from disk, in order to run my own BBS software. Those were the days. If only Acorn implemented "half-brite" and so had 16 colours like the C64 instead of those lousy flashing colours.

Commodore only got serious with the release of the Amiga. Sadly that fat bastard Jack Tramiel ditched it so he could "compete" in the PC market (hahaha... doomed to failure).

Such a shame that Atari didn't take on their own designers invention and went for the cruddy ST as retaliation.

[dr.diesel]

Microsoft
Windows X
Flash


 

[TerraHertz]

Norton Utilities
PC Tools

And XTreeGold.

Though I still use ZTreeWin, successor to XTreeGold.

[SLJ]

"stat"  -  Took me awhile to remember not to use dir on one of my CP/M machines to view the files.  I also waited and forgot to press "b" to get it to boot.
Wordstar still works like a champ on it though.

[david77]

Ah, the memories... I really need to have a play with my good old 386 machine and DOS over the holidays. I admit it, I'm deeply in love with MSDOS, for all its faults.
I've still got an operational 10Base2 network at home. These days it's just there to connect the HP Laserjet 4 to the network. The stupid NIC in the printer and my 3Com switch won't talk to one another. I had a media converter lying around so chose that route.

MFM drives were lovely, remember the great sounds they made? I particularly liked one of the 20MB Miniscribe drives sounds, it's still often used in movies as a sound effect. I've got one left, a Seagate ST225, it's awesome to hear that one spin up  .

[codeboy2k]

Anybody remember teletypes? 

I cut my teeth on baudot teletypes..

.. and who else remembers the term : TV Typewriter

That was an upgrade

[codeboy2k]

Windows X

Don't you mean X Windows ?? that would be X, the X Consortium , XLIB programming, and the Xt (X toolkit)..
Later we were graced with MWM and Motif, then CDE (The Common Desktop Environment)

[ Oh, and not to forget OpenWindows, and Display Postscript, both from Sun ]

[ and there was Apollo, SGI, Solbourne, all doing their own thing ]

[krux]

Winchester
Octal
thick ethernet
ethernet cable tap
AUI
MAU
HP-HIL
UV-eraser
Sneaker-net
EMM386 and HIMEM

Don't forget Twinax.. it was coax cable that had two center conductors, which was used on old IBM green screen terminals... annoying stuff to work with... though as a UNIX guy, I still use the term VT100 quite often.

Of course there is frame relay, fddi, line printers, reel to reel tape, wire wrap (though it's still used some in prototyping, and old phone equipment)

[david77]

Now it comes back to me!

Adjusting the interleave on your new MFM disk and doing a low level format using debug to access the controllers BIOS.

[dr.diesel]

Windows X

Don't you mean X Windows ?? that would be X, the X Consortium , XLIB programming, and the Xt (X toolkit)..

I mean Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 9, etc.

[carpelux]

Don't forget Twinax.. it was coax cable that had two center conductors, which was used on old IBM green screen terminals... annoying stuff to work with... though as a UNIX guy, I still use the term VT100 quite often.

Talking about cables, dont forget Token Ring. It used a cable which was almost impossible to distinguish from a water hose.

[AmmoJammo]

How about LOAD "*",8,1 and then going off to toast a sandwich, make a cuppa etc...

Ah, the 1541, the slowest disk drive in the known universe.

It was a serial disk drive, it even had it's own 6502 CPU onboard, yet it was slower than the C64 tapes with turbo loaders. Whoever designed it should have been shot. Also having to LOAD "*",8,1 would wipe out your own BASIC program with a pile of crud DIR listing.

Incredibly, the disc drive/C64 can be modified (and added to) to load a whole program in about 2 seconds flat!

[Excavatoree]

Ah, someone said CP/M - the memories!

I'll add good old "PIP" and HDOS - the Heathkit Disk Operating System - I believe some of the programmers later went on to work for Microsoft.

SET HDOS STAND-ALONE
It is now pitched dark.  If you proceed, you will likely fall into a pit.

[Terabyte2007]

How about BBS and Sysop. I was Co-Sysop of the Blazing Inferno BBS. Those were the days... I mention BBS to my kids, and they look at me like

Oh, yeah! PC Pursuit.  O0

[AlfBaz]

What about Leisure  Suite Larry
and by far my all time favourite Elite!!

[manzini]

yesterday I asked Santa for a multitech (now acer) mpf-II, more nostalgic than practical matter for "my" Christmas.

But to be more practical for my kids, hahaha, also have ask for this:





The smallest, has not known the cd's, so I imagine his face, 25th morning when they see me with the mpf-II and cassette tapes, and waiting minutes to see a bored green screen with dummy letter-games.