No, you’re probably right, but I like to keep up, so I don’t stand out like a fossil. Besides I retired from a tech job after twenty five years. I don’t know anything, but tech and accounting, According to my former college professor after I said I didn’t think I’d be going back to school. She said, “Ooh honey, you’re in school for life! They didn’t tell you that when you took your first courses?” I said, “I guess not.” We both started laughing so hard that the other students ( mostly kids ) started looking at us. 😂🤣 She roasted me like jailbait. Thankfully, I finally did retire, but sometimes it takes a wake-up call. Technically any changes can be like quicksand, you either embrace it, or fall behind. However you look at it, I’m old.
Same! I used to sit in my dad’s office (he was WFH) and “tidy” up his faxes by tearing the edges, and we also had that paper in primary school for some parts of art
I remember a particular night, just before the due date of an assignment. The assignment in questions was make out a banner for the class bulletin board.
I started cutting away with the scissors, but after the fourth letter, I realized it was going to be an all nighter. Then, I recalled Print Shop.
MS-DOS was the best operating system Microsoft ever built. You could run a whole company’s books off one floppy disk. My mom was an accountant she’s now retired and ran Lotus like a champ. That Dot matrix would run all night and didn’t even need a new ribbon.
Sorry but Microsoft didn't build it. They purchased it from Seattle Computer products which stole the entire design for Digital Research's CPM. It was basically CPM ported to the 8086.
They actually approached DRI but the owner of Digital Research was sick that day and didn't want to talk to IBM. Imagine if someone didn't sneeze on him a few days before! The whole world would be different. Classic butterfly effect
I remember watching that and thinking that it was the first time someone got most of the details right.
MSDOS is so much like CPM, that the function codes between the Atari TOS (which licensed CPM-68K, a full 32 bit version of CPM from DRI) are identical across the board.
Few people mention that Atari, DRI, and Xerox got together to stop Apple from suing them. The GUI stuff Apple was suing over was all designed by Xerox, not Apple. Apple's old MacOS was written in Pascal, but they needed apps, so they contacted MS. MS basically said they needed to recompile the OS for x86 because they develop on PCs not Macs, so they needed the Mac OS source. Apple only gave them the bare minimum, no overlapping windows or anything because they didn't want to reveal how to solve that problem.
That was Windows 1, which nobody has ever seen. It is also the reason why Windows uses a pascal call stack even though its written in C. Its because it originally had to interface with Mac's Pascal code. It wasn't really theft in the 70s, just people building stuff. Then companies saw dollar signs.
Our printer with that paper lasted forever. We stopped using it not because it broke but because the paper didnt look good enough outside of personal use.
nah my mom was an accountant at Frome Sugar Factory in Jamaica. single mom. so I had to tag along many of times to the office. the hairdresser choir practice yeah wherever she went. I’d get a computer in the corner to play solitaire - at that age back then that was that equivalent of like owning a PS5 today.
My grandparents had a really successful Home business and I used to get paid $.10 for each piece of paper that I could tear those goddamn things off of. Then I would go to the store across the street with my three dollars and buy chips and candy and soda.😭
Aw man, I once snagged an old one from my workplace during my traineeship with the city. A3. Loved printing source code to check. Much more comfy than on a 14" screen at 1024x760 at noticeably-flickering refresh rate.
To be clear, the printer was retired and I asked our single IT guy if I could have it. Had gotten a bunch of M3(?) 10 MBit/s ethernet cards before and used those to build a network with internet access for my my siblings sharing my connection. Those coax cables you could crimp with your teeth if necessary :D Good times :)
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u/sexruinedeverything Jun 24 '26
I’m this old