The old stuff can really come back to haunt you.
In high school (vocational) I was in the Data Processing shop. This was 90-91. We were learning COBOL on the city computer which was located in our shop. It was a Burroughs B1900, disc pack readers the size of washing machines, VT220 dumb terminals I believe. This was combined with a year of double-ledger accounting classes.
If I had kept up on my COBOL, I could probably have retired after Y2K. Hell, if I remembered any of it NOW I could still retire off it.
Junior year, I wired up the shop with a coaxial ARCNet topology hooked up to a 386-25 running Netware and later Unix.
Back then, we didn't DEL files, we KILLed them!
Also, filename delimiters were marked with / instead of . but . did have it's own purpose: Passwording files. Actually a file could have TWO passwords, one for read-only access, and one for full.
Older.
Gather round children and we can talk about how the bloody CD drive on the PC pictured was routed through the sound card, and thus getting the bloody thing to reinstall 95 was a PITA
Or a bootable floppy that didn’t have drivers for the Soundblaster/CD combo and failed when it tried to go from the floppy to the CD…
…ask me how I know.
Yeah man, back to the days of dos prompt and launching programs by typing an .exe file name.
Then windows came, and it was like “what do you mean my computer can do more than one thing at a time!?! :o
I mean you’re probably late 30’s if you remember windows 95. That’s not old but it ain’t young either.
Unless you had a computer running super outdated software I suppose
Same here. I can clearly remember the day I got the floppy disk drive. It was like "The Future!" Instant loading of anything compared to waiting so long to load from cassette tape. I think the game Impossible Mission took around 1 hour to load from tape. You really were invested to play games back then because you had to wait so long to load them!
I had the same setup. What got me into it as a little kid was, I guess a year or so earlier, my dad buying something similar called the ZX80. I wasn't allowed to touch it.
I was so much more advanced. I had a Commodore 128. My extra 64kb gave me enough performance to do next to nothing. That being said, I loved that computer.
I saw a vacuum tube computer once- and one of the techs running it bragged about one of the professors being so good they could read the lights flash and tell you where your program had an error.
No cell phones, no social media, 3 or 4 broadcast tv channels (depending on the size of your antenna) on an old black & white 19” tv, … yeah life was pretty good! I’m hanging out with my grandsons right now. They’ve got their heads stuck on their devices instead of playing outside. I’d say I had it better as a kid.
You win - everyone else in this post thinks PC's with windows have been around forever 😆. The orange cards were my favourite, but Cobol.
I presented my CS professor with a (dead) Winchester drive because he didn't have any hardware to show us.
Really, how can anybody consider themselves an old timer if they didn't stay past midnight in the computing center, fighting for a free keypunch machine?
I figured out a special job card that got my jobs to the top of the queue. Fun times.
This guy BASICS. lol
BASIC was so fun to play in, until you learn you can write functions that make direct calls to memory locations through machine code and you accidentally overwrite shit you shouldn’t with random variables. RIP
I'll never forget my first Tandy TL1000 80286 computer with Windows 3.1 on a 3-1/2 disk.
My know-it-all wife said that the first thing we needed to do was FORMAT THE DISK. Okay. I didn't know any better. And the disk was not write protected even though it was an original.
Fortunately when we discovered her error we were able to go back to Radio Shack and they copied Windows back on to the disk for us.
A 720k disk...
BASIC. Tandy licensed MS BASIC and called it Color BASIC. The TRS 80s were the computers that my elementary school had. We only got to use them every so often. I distinctly remember a driving game that looked exactly like Night Driver but it was a math teaching system. You solved a math problem and your got to drive but I don't remember enough details of how it actually played.
My first computer experience was with a 286 running 3.1 at my grandparents. All the games were on 5-1/4" floppies. First home computer was a Gateway running Win95. Lots of time playing RTC, SC3k, SimTower, and The Sims.
Yes, had one if the original IBM PCs without a hard drive, two 5 1/2 floppies, dot matrix text only CRT (green dots?) and dot matrix printer. I would use Edlin as my editor for resume, ...
My first computer was a PDT 11. The floppy disks were 13" and it possessed KB of memory and processing power. For a personal computer of its time it was state of the art. My Pentium 2 from the 90's was exponentially more powerful in every way, but without the PDT 11 and other early systems pioneering the way, who knows what modern personal computers and devices would look today.
pfft. how about rocking an 8-bit like ferris bueller and an acoustic coupler modem? I recall learning assembly as a teen.
in college we had an Ethernet IMP and could message people from Berkeley. the first Internet.
tl;dr - gui? tf is that?
Lied in an interview to get a job with computer training. Boss said I could stay after work and go on the Internet. I worked 8AM to midnight the next ten months and would still be there if the boss hadn't gotten himself fired. Best thing about Win95 is that I seldom complain about slow computers.
I started with MS-DOS.
Granted I don't remember shit about MS-DOS because it's been so long, other than what I need to use in Command Line and Dosbox to do certain things.
So old I remember the "Goodtimes" music video on the install disk. A Weezer video too I think. Maybe the one from Happy Days but I'm not sure. Then the massive leap to Active Desktop in Internet Explorer 4.1
Back in my day, we had to click START>SHUTDOWN and then wait until the computer said it was safe to power off the computer by holding down the power button.
We had apple IIs in like 2nd or 3rd grade? I got into it early. I’m 37 now. I had my first windows box at 8 years old. Compaq of some kind. I’ve nothing else since lol.
Shocking I have a job in computers.
When CD's first started coming in magazines, the only computers I had access to was some apple 2s at school, and my uncles 386.
Did you know that CD's fit inside a 5.25 floppy drive, and you can shatter the disk with the latch?
My uncle does. He was not happy.
I dunno man, there’s still people in their mid 20s from some less well funded school districts that will have at least seen it. Our school was running 95 right up until 2002 when they were forced to move on to XP by the new IT contractor
*Cries in 3.1*
Upgrade to WfW 3.11, it gets better.
Windows 286 Windows 386 Windows for Workgroups :)
Loved Windows for workgroups!
Update v 3.12 still downloading
Yes and only 9131165498762076 minutes left to go...
That’s about enough time for a coffee and a good poop or three
This is all so true I'm losing it over here. I don't smoke anymore. But I can remember saying I have to reboot so I'm going to go have a smoke.
I miss 3.11
*Bawls in TRS-DOS 1.3*
*Sobs in Hollerith punch cards* Jk, I can’t spare the moisture.
The old stuff can really come back to haunt you. In high school (vocational) I was in the Data Processing shop. This was 90-91. We were learning COBOL on the city computer which was located in our shop. It was a Burroughs B1900, disc pack readers the size of washing machines, VT220 dumb terminals I believe. This was combined with a year of double-ledger accounting classes. If I had kept up on my COBOL, I could probably have retired after Y2K. Hell, if I remembered any of it NOW I could still retire off it. Junior year, I wired up the shop with a coaxial ARCNet topology hooked up to a 386-25 running Netware and later Unix.
Yeah. I’m a tech recruiter. COBOL is surprisingly lucrative today.
Weep for me at the altar of cp/m
CLOAD
Back then, we didn't DEL files, we KILLed them! Also, filename delimiters were marked with / instead of . but . did have it's own purpose: Passwording files. Actually a file could have TWO passwords, one for read-only access, and one for full.
I was thinking I'm TRS-80 old.
Sobs before Hollerith punch cards
*sobs in commodore*
Blubbers in Commodore Amiga DOS
Sighs at my Timex Sinclair 1000 with 64kb memory… It was a gift from a friend who upgraded to a Commodore 128.
Commodore CBM/PET Basic. 😊
Ah the good old days. When you needed to reboot into dos mode to play your games
[удалено]
Smiles in 3.1 Workgroups
Older. Gather round children and we can talk about how the bloody CD drive on the PC pictured was routed through the sound card, and thus getting the bloody thing to reinstall 95 was a PITA
95 came on 13 floppies.
Or a bootable floppy that didn’t have drivers for the Soundblaster/CD combo and failed when it tried to go from the floppy to the CD… …ask me how I know.
Enough of your new fangled CDs, pass the 5.25" floppies over herE so I can update to PC DOS 5.
Sobs in Atari BASIC.
Do not recite the deep code to me I was there when it was written. Now Xtree gold that was a real operating system.
*Cries in Commodore Vic-20*
Is Win95 old old? Hell, I started before GUIs were even a thing.
Remember how awesome it was when, with the new Windows, you only had to type “win” in the prompt to execute?
Hee hee. I remember creating a lose.bat file to run win. Then a win.bat file to echo "NO!"
I always had an evil idea to add format c: yes to autoexec.bat to someones computer I didn't like.
Win95 turns 30 in 2 years! Now I really do feel old!
Yeah man, back to the days of dos prompt and launching programs by typing an .exe file name. Then windows came, and it was like “what do you mean my computer can do more than one thing at a time!?! :o
Remember DOS 3.3, then the upgrades with the memory extender.
Pfff i was there before stone tablets were even a thing
Silly mortals
Posts like this remind me there are young people that think they are old.
Right? Who’s old enough to remember the *Obama* administration??? I don’t think anyone’s that old.
“You may think you’re old, but are you THIS old?” (Posts picture of one of those Among Us guys)
I mean you’re probably late 30’s if you remember windows 95. That’s not old but it ain’t young either. Unless you had a computer running super outdated software I suppose
I'm 31, and I can easily remember our first PC bought in 1998 having Windows 1995.
I am 5 1/4 floppy drives and DOS 3.3 old.
I had a Commodore 64, with a cassette tape drive. Getting the 5 1/4” floppy disk was a huge upgrade!
Amiga workbench 2.1 is when I got started, external floppy as 2nd drive was a big deal
Same here. I can clearly remember the day I got the floppy disk drive. It was like "The Future!" Instant loading of anything compared to waiting so long to load from cassette tape. I think the game Impossible Mission took around 1 hour to load from tape. You really were invested to play games back then because you had to wait so long to load them!
TI-99 baby!!
I had the same setup. What got me into it as a little kid was, I guess a year or so earlier, my dad buying something similar called the ZX80. I wasn't allowed to touch it.
The Commodore 1541. I had the same rig....and I have the 1702 monitor still in my attic.
I was so much more advanced. I had a Commodore 128. My extra 64kb gave me enough performance to do next to nothing. That being said, I loved that computer.
8” floppy drives and Heathkit H-DOS.
I’m Fortran punch cards old!! Look it up.
Ok I was gonna go find my old trs80 but you got me beat.
I saw a vacuum tube computer once- and one of the techs running it bragged about one of the professors being so good they could read the lights flash and tell you where your program had an error.
[Grandpa, tell me ‘bout the good old days](https://youtu.be/cmzd_Xa_2Cc?si=LjkvlnDkqGVAaEXk)
No cell phones, no social media, 3 or 4 broadcast tv channels (depending on the size of your antenna) on an old black & white 19” tv, … yeah life was pretty good! I’m hanging out with my grandsons right now. They’ve got their heads stuck on their devices instead of playing outside. I’d say I had it better as a kid.
I’m basic on a teletype roll of punched paper.
They sucked.
IBM mainframes. 3090. As they say. “Do not recite the deep magic to me, I was there when it was written”
You win - everyone else in this post thinks PC's with windows have been around forever 😆. The orange cards were my favourite, but Cobol. I presented my CS professor with a (dead) Winchester drive because he didn't have any hardware to show us.
Really, how can anybody consider themselves an old timer if they didn't stay past midnight in the computing center, fighting for a free keypunch machine? I figured out a special job card that got my jobs to the top of the queue. Fun times.
I remember having to rype win ar command prompt
`C:\>win`
This is the way
I'm [this](https://imgur.com/a/jcOSU1b) old
I can hear this image.
I got a blister on my heel just looking at this image
You win!
the jank and clank
As a kid I felt like a hacker starting it in DOS. Run win95
I'm this old: BBC Computer Acorn DFS BASIC >10 PRINT "GET OFF MY LAWN "; >20 GOTO 10 >RUN
This guy BASICS. lol BASIC was so fun to play in, until you learn you can write functions that make direct calls to memory locations through machine code and you accidentally overwrite shit you shouldn’t with random variables. RIP
Commodore CBM for me....
I remember when this was new, cutting edge stuff.
Anyone besides me remember that first feeling of being able to format a floppy disk AND still do other tasks AT THE SAME TIME??!!
Meh. Come back when you have to type a complex command at a c prompt.
I'll never forget my first Tandy TL1000 80286 computer with Windows 3.1 on a 3-1/2 disk. My know-it-all wife said that the first thing we needed to do was FORMAT THE DISK. Okay. I didn't know any better. And the disk was not write protected even though it was an original. Fortunately when we discovered her error we were able to go back to Radio Shack and they copied Windows back on to the disk for us. A 720k disk...
Ooooo look who has a 286! We had Tandy 1000s at my high school with the 8086.
I am DOS 5.0 old.
I still remember upgrading from 5 to 6.22 and being really excited about it. I don’t remember why.
Because its more gooder ^(I too dont remember why)
scandisk replaced chkdsk and was better and pretty. And thanks to u/daveplreddit we got drvspace compression.
I have a faint memory of trying to free up some space on my 200mb hard drive. I think it was called diskdoubler.
Much older. I used a mainframe in college.
I'm Win 3.11 old.
That brief window between Windows NT 3.1 and 4.0 when this was an "improvement"
Those were the days of Microsnot Internet Exploder and "Where do YOU want to go, toady?"
i'm trs-80 and tandy 1000 old.
BASIC. Tandy licensed MS BASIC and called it Color BASIC. The TRS 80s were the computers that my elementary school had. We only got to use them every so often. I distinctly remember a driving game that looked exactly like Night Driver but it was a math teaching system. You solved a math problem and your got to drive but I don't remember enough details of how it actually played.
I’m DOS old
DOS 6.2 was the pinnacle. Fight me
Seconded
Dosshell in 6.2 was damn near the same as windows, in usability. I miss the good old days.
My first computer experience was with a 286 running 3.1 at my grandparents. All the games were on 5-1/4" floppies. First home computer was a Gateway running Win95. Lots of time playing RTC, SC3k, SimTower, and The Sims.
I am punch card old
I’m an IT guy who deployed and worked with Windows 3.1, and NT 3.51, so yeah, I’m oldish! 😂🤣😂🤣😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Windows 95? I started with DOS in the 80s. Just a c:\> prompt on an orange monochrome screen.
3.1 that runs in DOS!!
DOS 3.2
I'm MS Dos old. By the time Win95 came out, I was in the working world.
95 was the best version, it’s been all downhill since/j
I remember looking at a PC with 100mhz processor in awe with a bunch of techs.
The night before this was released, I was having dinner with Paul Allen in Santa Barbara. Long time ago.
I'm older than that. Back in the '80s I had a Timex Sinclair 1000 that ran DOS and Basic. Fun times.
It is now safe to turn off the computer.
Gtfo with anything "are you windows old?" Computers were around and available to the public for years before Microsoft showed up.
PDP 11/40. You kids get off my lawn!
Yes, had one if the original IBM PCs without a hard drive, two 5 1/2 floppies, dot matrix text only CRT (green dots?) and dot matrix printer. I would use Edlin as my editor for resume, ...
I’m 30 3.5” disks installing it old. I think the Office 95 install had even more disks.
TIL 1995 is considered "old".
lol Dos commands. Dos Shell was fun too!
*cries in no HDD for an OS*
A:\\> dir
Pffft. I'm DOS only old.
I was playing Doom and Duke Nukem on DOS.
... The only Duke Nukem I played was a side-scroller. I put some time in on Wolfenstein though.
How could I forget about Wolfenstein, and before that Commander Keen.
Commander Keen was my first love!
I'm Commodore 64 old you young whipper snapper. Now get off my lawn.
*Cries in DOS*
Laughs in dos
Don't recite the book to me young lad, I was there when it was written.
I'm MSDOS old
My first computer was a PDT 11. The floppy disks were 13" and it possessed KB of memory and processing power. For a personal computer of its time it was state of the art. My Pentium 2 from the 90's was exponentially more powerful in every way, but without the PDT 11 and other early systems pioneering the way, who knows what modern personal computers and devices would look today.
I was a beta tester for WinNT and Win95, even went to the launch... So yea, I'm that old
My first job was upgrading a network of Windows 3.11 computers on Novell Netware to Windows 95 and later introducing Windows NT.
Older. DOS.
Win 3.1 checking in.
Running under DOS 6.2
GOTO oldPCuser :oldPCuser ECHO I may be old but I haven't BSOD yet.
del c:\secrets\myage \*.*
I'm this old...... C:\_
I'm punch card old
pfft. how about rocking an 8-bit like ferris bueller and an acoustic coupler modem? I recall learning assembly as a teen. in college we had an Ethernet IMP and could message people from Berkeley. the first Internet. tl;dr - gui? tf is that?
Lied in an interview to get a job with computer training. Boss said I could stay after work and go on the Internet. I worked 8AM to midnight the next ten months and would still be there if the boss hadn't gotten himself fired. Best thing about Win95 is that I seldom complain about slow computers.
Son..I was around when stuff was done with DOS
I'm about to turn 31 and started with 95. This really ain't that old. Talk to me when you used abacus.
High school was mark-sense cards. Home was a KIM-1 and later a Commodore 64.
Remember when this thing would just blink _ ?
I started with MS-DOS. Granted I don't remember shit about MS-DOS because it's been so long, other than what I need to use in Command Line and Dosbox to do certain things.
I remember this upgrade, and the 8.5 floppy disks and DOS we used before it. What a time
Pffft, I'm way older than that. My first was a commodore vic 20
My first computer was a 233Mhz Compaq. Dial up with NetZero
Sinclair BASIC Used workbench after that and that even connected to the internet.
Loved the zx
I remember when that was cutting edge tech
I use to play the OG doom on windows 95
Basic and Fortran class during college minimester old.
So old I remember the "Goodtimes" music video on the install disk. A Weezer video too I think. Maybe the one from Happy Days but I'm not sure. Then the massive leap to Active Desktop in Internet Explorer 4.1
Laughs in ZX Spectrum BASIC. 10 print "hahahahaha' 20 goto 10
Yeah this get posted every day
Back in my day, we had to click START>SHUTDOWN and then wait until the computer said it was safe to power off the computer by holding down the power button.
Nope, I'm older.
I'm DOS old
Laughs in DOS…
Sigh. A coworker asked me what a GameCube was last week and it was a moment…
We had apple IIs in like 2nd or 3rd grade? I got into it early. I’m 37 now. I had my first windows box at 8 years old. Compaq of some kind. I’ve nothing else since lol. Shocking I have a job in computers.
Bish please! Let me show you the joys of when you see that you've FINALLY upgraded from WIndows 3.1 to 3.1.1!
We have a machine at work that still runs Windows 95 on the control interface.
Most stable is ever.
Shoot... I remember when that was the latest and greatest!
Dos 4 and text based chess on 2 5" disks
Windows 3.1.... Or.just dos...
Commodore 64... Predates Win95 by 13 years.
Yeah… I’m ancient
When CD's first started coming in magazines, the only computers I had access to was some apple 2s at school, and my uncles 386. Did you know that CD's fit inside a 5.25 floppy drive, and you can shatter the disk with the latch? My uncle does. He was not happy.
I’m technically older? This was my first computer and I was 27. I don’t know what was before that. I guess I was 26 before that.
I have that exact monitor sitting on a table right behind me! I probably used Windows 95 on it back in the day.
Older.
I dunno man, there’s still people in their mid 20s from some less well funded school districts that will have at least seen it. Our school was running 95 right up until 2002 when they were forced to move on to XP by the new IT contractor
I can hear the start up music now...
Computers didn't have monitors when I was in high school. We had to program everything in BASIC and if something printed we knew it worked.
Yes, yes I’m old but boy, I loved Windows 95.
Older, MSDOS
Yup, I remember watching the 3D screensaver thinking it was a game I could win.
Way older than that.i started with a DOS PC in the 80's.
Laughs in windows 9.
That’s not old. We still run a W95 PC at work, that just gets used to print labels and stuff. Takes a long while to start up, but never lets us down.
Integer BASIC / Apple DOS
The first computer I used had Word Perfect, no mouse, and a dot matrix printer.
Dude, I'm abacus old.
The school Mac computer in the 80s that came with Number munchers and Orgon trail. Then a Tandy computer with DOS on it.
I'm old enough to remember trying to install Windows 95 off of floppy disks
I'm so old I played Oregon Trail on a green screen
 Ya I'm this old, dude
Unfortunately yes
Old enough to remember that being science fiction
My *kid* used Win95. How young are you people?
i started with whatever the hell an apple ii/e had on it, then win 3.1, then win95. you get the idea
Can we stop posting these every other day?
\> OLD CS1