20th Century Archaeology

[mbarrick]

Windows/286 v2.1 on 5¼" floppies I just came across these. Yup. I've been doing this computer shit for waaaaay too long!

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[dream-king.livejournal.com]

Personally I wish I had never upgraded from 3.11, it was just as wonderful as 3.0 but with the added network capability. Curses to upgrading Win95.

Though I have to admit that Word Perfect 9 is much better than the WP 5.1 which was the first version made for Windows. It came with the 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" discettes.

Well, if you want it...

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I still have copies of Windows 3.0, 3.1, and 3.11 kicking around too. But, hey, my "monitor stand" is (and has been for years) an IBM MS-BASIC v1.10 Manual and an IBM Personal Computer Guide to Operations v2.02 from 1982 and 1983 respectively.

What's really fucked up is sometimes this crap still comes in handy. I seriously had to scrounge up a GW-BASIC interpreter just last year for a project I had!

Re: Well, if you want it...

[bitogoth.livejournal.com]

it could be worse... i can still program in Basic- it's the only computer language i ever officially learned.

But it *is* worse

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Some of my obsolete skills, programming-wise, include (in chronological order):

Commodore BASIC (1977)
Apple BASIC (1979)
MS/GW BASIC (1980)
65xx series CPU assembly code (1982)
Turbo Pascal (1983)
X-Talk scripting language (1989)
Modula-2 (1990)

Yeah. If you need a Commodore Pet/64/VIC-20 programmed, in BASIC or on a machine-code level, I can do it. Yup. That's just got the work pouring in....

My life in BASIC

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Geek humour at its finest...

10 FOR X = 1 TO 10
20 ?"Alarm goes off"
30 ?"Hit snooze"
40 NEXT X
50 ?"Tharsis wakes me up"
60 GOSUB 1000
70 OPEN "EMAIL" FOR INPUT AS #1
80 OPEN "RESUME" FOR OUTPUT AS #2
90 IF EOF(1) THEN 140
100 INPUT #1, j
110 IF j<>"JOB" GOTO 90
120 PRINT #2, "Apply"
130 GOTO 90
140 CLOSE #1
150 CLOSE #2
160 ?"Work on website"
170 ?"Paint"
180 ?"Eat"
190 ?"Find other things to keep me from getting depressed"
200 ?"Fall asleep"
210 GOTO 10
220 END
1000 REM morning routine
1010 ?"Make coffee"
1020 ?"Run dishwasher"
1030 ?"Clean cat-box"
1040 ?"Shower"
1050 ?"Dress"
1060 RETURN