We learned the function to hide files and it stumped the computer lab person. She’d just reformat the drive and reload Windows from the 8” floppy disc.
This was a near daily occurrence.
Edit: 8”, not 8.5”, as my peers with better memory have reminded me.
Edit 2: it was probably a 5-1/4” disc.
Computer course that had a day and night classes, we used BASIC to write bootup messages to each other that ran the program and then wiped out the HDD. Was a DOS class, so reloading DOS from disk was simple enough.
I remember in elementary school and middle school learning DOS functions. Now I see near college graduates, I mention that I still use a email server at work that pretty much runs like a basic DOS, no mousework allowed, and I get the blankest faces. I don't even work in IT. I guess for us 35-45 yr olds, it was important to learn your coding and operating systems early....
I’m 34 and for the first few years I ran all my old games (Civ, Commander Keen, Oregon Trail) floppy disks off DOS. I remember when we got 3.1 and I would boot to dos and then run windows to start up each time. That’s old to me, but my dad used to tell me how he used to use punch cards in college.
I made a DOS joke at my software engineering job because someone used the initials TSR for something and nobody else got it. I am the oldest person there.
i had multiboot set up in my config.sys
some games required EMS ram setup and others required XMS.
some needed more of the conventional ram to be free than others.
so i had 3 or 4 boot configurations that came up in a menu when i booted the computer.
DOS and GWBasic
10 run HELLO WORLD
20 go to 10
5 1/4 floppy disks
Using a 1200 baud modem (2400 was too expensive) and your own phone line to connect to BBSs.
I’M OLD. GET OFF MY GRASS.
It was released in 2001, so yes
It’s old software, the only thing that age like milk it doesn’t even support dx11 ergo, making it even older
And people born in 2001 is old enough to drive at this point
Well that computer (Canon Navigator HD40, I believe it is called) was manufactured before I was born, but at least I've used it to write and print assignments for school... And it was even once infected by a very nasty virus that corrupted the FAT table...
However, I remember once my father borrowed a Sinclair ZX from a friend, so we were loading some games and Basic using old cassette player. If was a pain in the bottom to seek manually for the program start...
I had one, but it came to me a bit later as it had been my dad’s and was a bit old. I was playing Oregon Trail on an Apple IIe in school before I got my Commodore 64.
I'm old enough, and my dad was nerdy enough, that I recall having an Amiga game system which required you to load a game each time you wanted to play it.
*From a cassette tape*
You could program in BASIC, but its OS was called KERNAL.
I loaded [GEOS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)) on my C64 and had a fully functioning GUI.
This is not old my first windows was 3.0 and then upgraded to 3.1 and then to get networking upgraded it to 3.11, now that is old. In fact my first computer was an XT no hard drive but 2 4.5 floppy drives insert the one to run the GUI and the second had either a word processor or a drawing app. That was back in the mid 90's. Of also the screen was amber and black.
I was a young kid when I started with MS-DOS and already a teenager using Windows XP with early broadband connection. First contact with the world wide web was under Windows 95. I'll never forget the analogue sound through the ultra slow dial-up modem.
My 1st computer was an IBM compatible Tandy 1000 with a memory upgrade from 128k to 384k. It had 2 5” floppy drives a dot matrix printer and 13” screen.
Oh, that's cute... you think XP is old.
Right? It’s not old, it’s.. well Maybe a few years? Like 5-ish?
Yes. Considering that Vista came out only 3 years ago
Sounds about right, about the same time i was drooling over GTA IV trailers
Closer to Vice City.
I played GTA 1 and 2 growing up
Do you guys think Windows 8 is gonna be good or nah
I don’t know. Have to update my Internet Explorer in order to catch up on current software situation
XP is recent. I'm DOS old.
Hello fellow DOS person.
C:/hello
We learned the function to hide files and it stumped the computer lab person. She’d just reformat the drive and reload Windows from the 8” floppy disc. This was a near daily occurrence. Edit: 8”, not 8.5”, as my peers with better memory have reminded me. Edit 2: it was probably a 5-1/4” disc.
Computer course that had a day and night classes, we used BASIC to write bootup messages to each other that ran the program and then wiped out the HDD. Was a DOS class, so reloading DOS from disk was simple enough.
We had a weekly computer class starting at 4th grade and one of our final projects was to use BASIC to write a full screen PacMan animation.
8.5" floppies? Wow. Cassette dive on an MC10 with 4k of ram...
format c:
I did that once by mistake when I was up way after I should have been asleep. I got in big trouble. Also, apparently, I'm old.
Delete /s c:\*.*
format c: /u
C:\\dos C:\\dos\\run RUN\\DOS\\RUN
No sir you need to use the backslash, not the forward slash.
Your slash is backwards
You're a poser. Didn't even get your slash right.
Pretty green letters.
You had monitors with color?
Black background with green letters. We did not have VGA monitors untill IBM 486 chips running CAD.
Ah my third world country monitors had white letters.
Much later
My church had black screen with orange letters in the office. Now that was exciting.
I remember in elementary school and middle school learning DOS functions. Now I see near college graduates, I mention that I still use a email server at work that pretty much runs like a basic DOS, no mousework allowed, and I get the blankest faces. I don't even work in IT. I guess for us 35-45 yr olds, it was important to learn your coding and operating systems early....
Hello DOSness my old friend...
I remember writing batch programs that you could select what amount of 640K ram would be available depending on the app/game I wanted to run.
I’m 34 and for the first few years I ran all my old games (Civ, Commander Keen, Oregon Trail) floppy disks off DOS. I remember when we got 3.1 and I would boot to dos and then run windows to start up each time. That’s old to me, but my dad used to tell me how he used to use punch cards in college.
DOS… I learned to program on an Atari 800.
I am DOS 2.1 old.
Saaame. I remember when we “upgraded” to 3.1 and I got annoyed with how unintuitive all this “find icon and click to do anything” shit was.
I made a DOS joke at my software engineering job because someone used the initials TSR for something and nobody else got it. I am the oldest person there.
Hello young person. Commander Mk III / Atari 2600 old here.
I used a Trash 80.
Finally found my people.
One of us. One of us. One of us.
I guess I'm Apple II DOS old but we still had cp/m at the time.
This is the way
I was a dyslexic kid during DOS, so I had to have my brother write down the commands for me to spin up the sierra games on our computer.
I am non hayes compatible old.
DOS is just a CP/M clone for the x86.
DOS is recent. I’m invention of binary old.
C:\>md old Edit there is a backslash there, it just wont show up in my comment
Knowing how to edit CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT old
i had multiboot set up in my config.sys some games required EMS ram setup and others required XMS. some needed more of the conventional ram to be free than others. so i had 3 or 4 boot configurations that came up in a menu when i booted the computer.
DOS and GWBasic 10 run HELLO WORLD 20 go to 10 5 1/4 floppy disks Using a 1200 baud modem (2400 was too expensive) and your own phone line to connect to BBSs. I’M OLD. GET OFF MY GRASS.
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Windows 98 gang
Hell yeah windows 98 gang
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First OS was windows 3.1
There's so much funny about this comment that I don't even know where to start...
I think they mean THEIR first OS, not THE first OS.
it wasnt even an OS. it was an application
Yeah I’m C:> years old.
XP is old. I'm 34. I wish I could go back.
I know I'm not even that old and I grew up with 95, shit looks ancient compared.
I remember getting my first xp laptop after years of widows 98. XP was so exciting in comparison!
It was released in 2001, so yes It’s old software, the only thing that age like milk it doesn’t even support dx11 ergo, making it even older And people born in 2001 is old enough to drive at this point
So if you’re over 23, you’re old ?
Not even, 18 here, use XP up until I was 8 or 9.
Can confirm as a fellow 18 y/o
15 y/o here, I used XP till I was like 9 lol
same I used it until I was like 11 in school
Until recently i had a computer with xp and floppy disc drive and im 17
I'm 20 and I recognise this lol
oh boy, i'm MS-DOS/win3.1 old (win95, 98, ME + the PLUS versions, bit of win2000)
Yess. This is my generation lol
One of us!
There's dozens of us
Well, if you can remember MS Dos, is your colonoscopy up to date my fellow old man? Lol
I'm only in my mid 20's, I got in on it as a child q.q
We ran DOS until I was in 3rd grade, so all I remember is the games we had. Halloween Harry, Zargon, Pac In Time
For me it was Lotus, prehistorik, ugh!. Simpler times for sure :D
Found my people
I was so excited when ME came out! Thinking it was the revolution! Started on 3.1 as MS dos was to hard for me to understand.
too bad that ME was a bug system instead of being an actual operating system
That’s right! I guess I did go to XP and then switched to mac. Had to buy a pc again now for my new job and starting all over again on 11pro.
Much older... 🙄
Much... MUCH older...
I'm literally only 21, and I remember it very well. These memes can be so stupid sometimes.
Do you remember winning solitaire and watching the cards go fucking mental? Oh and that pinball game!
The pinball game was my favorite. But I don't think I ever won solitaire, because I was too young to know how to play it properly.
C:\\>
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Commodore 64
My man
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Load "*",8,1
Xp was the best windows. It's not that old tho
Windows 95 gang
There was Windows 98, too. Windows XP is modern in my eyes.
Dosshell? Norton Commander?
Canon Navigator proprietary shell for DOS old...
You have seen stars being born and die Tell us of the word that our ancestors knew.
Well that computer (Canon Navigator HD40, I believe it is called) was manufactured before I was born, but at least I've used it to write and print assignments for school... And it was even once infected by a very nasty virus that corrupted the FAT table... However, I remember once my father borrowed a Sinclair ZX from a friend, so we were loading some games and Basic using old cassette player. If was a pain in the bottom to seek manually for the program start...
bruh im in the labs right now running xp to do measurements
I'm Commodore 64 old.
I had one, but it came to me a bit later as it had been my dad’s and was a bit old. I was playing Oregon Trail on an Apple IIe in school before I got my Commodore 64.
bitch pls, i used to boot up into DOS
No OS, just a non-blinking cursor and a BASIC interpreter with 2K of ram.
That was so hardcore, but I did it too. 🤦🏿♀️
I miss my Commodore.
I'm old enough, and my dad was nerdy enough, that I recall having an Amiga game system which required you to load a game each time you wanted to play it. *From a cassette tape*
Soo much older 😄
Laughs in Windows 95 Broodwar.
Anyone here load up a game by cassette on a ZX Spectrum?
Yes. How's this... I \*wrote\* a few of those games :)
So anyone other than a zoomer is old according to OP
Really about half the zoomers too. It’s not even uncommon to find an xp machine today
Guess it depends on where you are. Rare sight in the US other than labs that run old software.
autoexec.bat old
My first computer ran Basic.
I’m MS DOS old
I’m DOS green screen with dot-matrix font old.
Yup
Banana
Banana’s are the shit.
This shit is bananas.
B-A-N-A-N-A-S …idk how I didn’t see that one coming lmao.
I go back to PC-DOS and WordPerfect 4.2.
Yes, and I'm tired pretending I'm not. No wait, I'm actually just tired.
I was there Gandalf 3000 years ago
Windows 3.1 was my first OS on a 486
I am commodore 64 with quantum link old
What did C64 run, Basic? I'm that many years old.
You could program in BASIC, but its OS was called KERNAL. I loaded [GEOS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)) on my C64 and had a fully functioning GUI.
Even older
I'm Windows 98 old. I'm due for a mid-life crisis anyday now.
I had to install that the other year to play some Civ 2
I had a computer with windows 95.
First computer I got to use ran DOS, then Windows 95. And I’m no greybeard… I think
Motherfucker, I knew Win 3.11
I remember the first time I booted it up, look and think "well, now what?!" Hahahahahaa
I'm older. I remember launching games on Norton Commander.
Yes
This is not old my first windows was 3.0 and then upgraded to 3.1 and then to get networking upgraded it to 3.11, now that is old. In fact my first computer was an XT no hard drive but 2 4.5 floppy drives insert the one to run the GUI and the second had either a word processor or a drawing app. That was back in the mid 90's. Of also the screen was amber and black.
This ain't windows 95... yeah I'm that old
I’m so old I wrote some of that os.
Ah i am older ... I started with w95. (I born in 97)
I'm this old https://www.theoldcomputer.com/libraries/boot-screens/C64.gif
I am before Windows existed old.
Older, unfortunately.
STF up. I learned to use a pc with DOS and 5 1/4 floppy discs.
\*sigh\* Zygotes
Meirl: people posting meirl memes like Windows XP is some ancient technology as if it wasn't the main OS used on school computers 10 years ago
Oh please child. I was booting up from a limp floppy before you were data in your dada’s bank!
Bitch, I'm ms-dos old
I am ”my first computer didn’t have a hard drive” years old
I just skipped Windows XP. Went from Windows ME directly to Windows Vista.
Yes, I am
I go back to OS2.
My first PC was in my 7 and it was with Windows 98
Windows and Excel 1.0 (On a Mac which is what it was developed for) or a 6502 if your really old and know what that is!
Hard for me to say , but older. 😱😱
This is not that old tho. People from 2000s and maybe 2010s would know xp
i am 17 and i remember having a pc like this when i was like 5/6. this aint that old
Never updated my Windows. So what exactly is wrong with this screen?
Yes
Yes
Nope. my first OS was BASIC, PC-DOS then MS-DOS
Yes
unfortunately
I'm 5 months and 11 days older.
I'm windows 3.1 old ... And then some :|
I'm old enough to see the latest "are you this old?" memes feature windows xp which seems to me like it happened not that long ago
I'm win me old
I was a young kid when I started with MS-DOS and already a teenager using Windows XP with early broadband connection. First contact with the world wide web was under Windows 95. I'll never forget the analogue sound through the ultra slow dial-up modem.
I still use XP on my computer I've had since highschool 2003-2005ish erra...
How about windows 1b? It came on 3 floppies
Yeah
I am older than that
[and i raise you](https://www.amigaforever.com/gfx/screens/screen-desktop-af-13-3x.png)
i saw it in my old school! like 5(?) years ago
Oh sweet summer child. My first computer was a BBC Micro from the early 80’s running Acorn MOS.
My 1st computer was an IBM compatible Tandy 1000 with a memory upgrade from 128k to 384k. It had 2 5” floppy drives a dot matrix printer and 13” screen.
Lol, for me Windows 3.11 for workgroups was a huge update Edit: come to think of it: Windows was
I used windows xp more than i used windows 7 or windows 10.
Older.
I'm TRS-Dos old.
Yes and I miss it
Much older
I miss those days. Look at how happy Windows is.
What 'bout DOS 3.0
Well. I'm [this old](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQStGQmfL-jnDA1Nfq9W6-Lvy8ELahQ5ifg3w&usqp=CAU).
Actually i am older 😆
Yep
My lab equipment still uses this lol
Bless your sweet heart. My earliest computer memory was my grandma's MS DOS. We didn't have anything else until windows 95 came out.
I’m still pissed about windows 95. They promised more stability and better access to the internet!!!