Outdated Computer Terms

[miguelvp]

I would have been more impressed if you got yourself a drum printer

Weren't they like an OTT daisy wheel printer with a wheel for each column?

Oh and the printer paper that was white and green

The stuff used with carbon paper?

[rollatorwieltje]

I think we have an I/O Error here.................

Teletext https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext

Teletype https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Corporation

In my previous post I referred to Teletext, teletypes are cool though.

Teletext is not dead yet, still used over here on pretty much every channel. Subtitles on your ultra hd screen in huge 7x4 pixels.

[Zbig]

Acoustic Coupler

My new LG washing machine begs to differ ;-) It supposedly has a "debug" mode where, while prompted by the support on the phone, after you press some magic button combination and shove the phone in its face, it shrieks its diagnostic data to them.

[JuKu]

Term: Hercules Graphics, still brings feelings. The first computer I was paid to use, you could go to the back of it and look at the individual bits.

[HighVoltage]

I bought a new dot matrix printer this year, because nothing else works so well on multipart forms. Plus the ribbon lasts around 3 boxes of paper.

Was it an OKI Microline?
They have been around since the days of DOS and still being sold.

[nanofrog]

I bought a new dot matrix printer this year, because nothing else works so well on multipart forms. Plus the ribbon lasts around 3 boxes of paper.

Was it an OKI Microline?
They have been around since the days of DOS and still being sold.

You just reminded me I still have one of those (ML591). 

[SL4P]

one of my favourites - which I noticed in Microsoft docs around the year 2000, was the complete betrayal of the 'sometimes' related but completely different terms...

• VOLUME
• GAIN
• LEVEL
• AMPLITUDE

when explaining audio processing...

[Howardlong]

- Plug and Play compatible devices

Must've lost days of not weeks of my life trying to get ISA PNP cards to work, it was anything but plug and play.

[Kjelt]

22 yo Student doing a graduation project at work "What was your graduation project"
Me: designing and programming a SCSI interface for some optical card reader.
Student: what for interface scuzy?  I am getting old.

[Neilm]

- Plug and Play compatible devices

Must've lost days of not weeks of my life trying to get ISA PNP cards to work, it was anything but plug and play.

I thought the proper description was Plug and Pray

[miguelvp]

Remember Datasettes? Or Microdrives?

We called them just cassette tapes even if they held data, only Microdrive I've seen used was on the Sinclair QL.

[deephaven]

Bit Slice (chip slice) processors. I designed a hard disk drive controller using those a long time ago. The multi 12" platter drive capacity was huge - 70 MB!

[dtnicholls]

DECnet... and up until about 2 years ago I maintained a small network still using using this protocol (and others such as NetBEUI) on Alphas running VMS. Oh the pain... lol
Making the damn things talk to both UNIX and SAMBA network locations, where each alpha was on it's own VLAN nearly drove me insane.

My understanding of networking increased more than tenfold in that few years!

[HighVoltage]

How about

Norton Commander
and
Norton Utilities

The best tools in those days to fix so many things fast.

[Whales]

Commander still lives on through many clones.  I use midnight commander whenever doing large copy jobs.

EDIT: If you are a windows user a version of MC exists for you, but if you prefer a GUI alternatives they exist: http://www.ghisler.com/

[coppice]

Bit Slice (chip slice) processors. I designed a hard disk drive controller using those a long time ago. The multi 12" platter drive capacity was huge - 70 MB!

Ah, the good old days. The Intel 3000 family vs the AMD 2900 family. 

[HighVoltage]

Commander still lives on through many clones.

I am using the EF-Commander
It is a German made software
I use it every day, there is no substitute for a 2 window file utility

http://www.efsoftware.com/cw/e.htm

[Mechanical Menace]

HCF/Halt and catch fire.
Transputer

[Kjelt]

Ah the "Quest" games from Sierra with midi output to the Roland MT32 because the soundcards sucked 

[deephaven]

Bit Slice (chip slice) processors. I designed a hard disk drive controller using those a long time ago. The multi 12" platter drive capacity was huge - 70 MB!

Ah, the good old days. The Intel 3000 family vs the AMD 2900 family. 

It was the 2900 for me. making the instruction word as wide as you like was great!

[EEVmarty]

Norton Disk Doctor

Leisure Suit Larry   ;-)

Lemmings

[coppice]

Bit Slice (chip slice) processors. I designed a hard disk drive controller using those a long time ago. The multi 12" platter drive capacity was huge - 70 MB!

Ah, the good old days. The Intel 3000 family vs the AMD 2900 family. 

It was the 2900 for me. making the instruction word as wide as you like was great!

You were lucky. I worked with both. The Intel stuff was seriously limited compared to the AMD stuff. Those were the days when AMD was THE name in DSP hardware.

[HighVoltage]

Leisure Suit Larry   ;-)

We used Macro Assembler to hack "Leisure Suit Larry" just for fun.
Had forgotten about that one!
Thanks for the reminder.

[manzini]

Doublespace / drivespace

same 20MB HD to 42MB !! Yihaa!

[T3sl4co1l]

Think I still have MS-DOS 6.2 on my XT (which means DoubleSpace; of course, I'd be a fool to have it installed, despite the 20MB of usable disk space).  They had to change it to DriveSpace in a rushed 6.22 to avoid infringement...

Tim