nostalgy contest?

[Luis G]

Talking to Leslie about old software I remember I had this one:

The manual:

5 1/4 disks!!!!

 

[Leslie]

ooooooooh the memories. We were so happy to upgrade to Lotus from the word processor at work.

 

[Luis G]

Ohh I forgot to add, the set is priceless as well because some of the disks are infected with the Stoned virus

 

[Winky]

VisiCalc anyone?


And of course WordPerfect 5.1 ICK!

 

[chcr]

I learned spreadsheets on Visicalc.

 

[Leslie]

I learned on 5.0.

and then we upgraded and it was scary cause it was new!!

 

[Professur]

PC Dos 2.0? Got it in the truck.

 

[MrBishop]

I have a few oldies at home...have to dust them off... think that I have a precursor to Winsock for Win2.0 somewhere.

 

[PT]

Ohh I forgot to add, the set is priceless as well because some of the disks are infected with the Stoned virus

I had that virus. Really the epitome of what viruses should have stayed. The computer would run just fine, didn't delete anything, just gave you the message that your computer was stoned occasionally. I loved it.

 

[chcr]

I may still have the 5-1/4 floppies for TRS-DOS 3 in the attic (somewhere near the Betamax, no doubt ).

 

[greenfreak]

I don't go back that far but I did have a pc at work that had both floppy drives formats that I was using for a doorstop. Believe it our not, I wound up using it later on because someone wanted to transfer files from a 5 1/4.


I also have Windows 3.1 on floppy disk that we've used for computers here on occasion.

 

[HomeLAN]

I have several sets of MS-DOS 5.0 and Win 3.1 on 3.5 disks. I also have PC-DOS 7.0. I think I tossed my external 5.25 drive about a year ago.

 

[catocom]

I think I still have ms-dos 2.11 here somewhere.
I'll see if I can track it down.

 

[Shadowfax]

this is nostalgy for me...:

(unfortunately the external floppy drive isn't shown, which had the system disk...)

playing this game:

Scarab of Ra

 

[Raven]

I still have MS-DOS 6 and 7 and Windows 3.1 on 3.5" in my floppy box

 

[ResearchMonkey]

I remeber the TRS-80, with a cassette-tape drive. My best Friends father was the head of the local school districts for the county. He had one courtesy of the Gov't.

...man it was lame.

 

[MrBishop]

Colecovision and Adam

My first taste at computers...if you can call'em that.

 

[HomeLAN]

My first taste was a Bally TV Arcade. You could do some programming in BASIC, right on your TV screen. The school also had Trash 80's.

 

[catocom]

My first taste was a tandy too.
I don't remember what model, but it used those 8" floppies.

I still use the table that came with it.

 

[BeardofPants]

this is nostalgy for me...:

*img* http://media.globaldiving.net/misc/mac.jpg *img*

We've got one of those.

I'm a baby, my first exploration was a 386 with DOS. I vaguely remember playing around with an old apple as well even further back (don't know what, but most schools had them). It had a black screen, and green text.