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[MantisMag]

*sigh* i remember the first computer i ever used had no monitor. you had to hook it up to your tv. the computer was located under the keyboard. the floppy drive was housed seperately. floppies were 5 1/4" big and the disk inside was exposed. the drive had a latch on the front that held the disk in. it wasn't spring loaded like the ones you have now. there was no hard drive. everything was on that floppy that held 160K. it had 64K of RAM and ran at a blazing fast 1 MHz. 16 colors at 320x200 resolution. i miss that computer. i spent a lot of quality time with my dad and that computer. :)

[brianlojeck]

DOS is still current curriculum at my school, unfortunatly. Microcomputer Hardware 1 has you making boot floppies, installing CDROM drivers, editing autoexec.bat, loading himem.sys, connecting to a novell network, all sorts of boring and stupid stuff.

That's only dull and stupid until you find yourself in a company with a novell network and the VP of sales win2k station dies with his only copy of the big sales report, and you have to put together a boot floppy with the right drivers to read the NTFS disk to save the day and not get fired.

and yes, there's still quite a bit of novell in the business world.

[Muzikman]

*sigh* i remember the first computer i ever used had no monitor. you had to hook it up to your tv. the computer was located under the keyboard. the floppy drive was housed seperately. floppies were 5 1/4" big and the disk inside was exposed. the drive had a latch on the front that held the disk in. it wasn't spring loaded like the ones you have now. there was no hard drive. everything was on that floppy that held 160K. it had 64K of RAM and ran at a blazing fast 1 MHz. 16 colors at 320x200 resolution. i miss that computer. i spent a lot of quality time with my dad and that computer. :)

That sounds a lot like a C64 or C128. Maybe a CoCo or TRS80.

(BTW, I had all those:))

[Target Practice]

You know, Windows 3.11 for workgroups runs AWESOME with 1.3 gigs of Kingston Hyperthreaded RAM.

Don't ask how I know that...

[Muzikman]

Now fire up Trumpet WinSock and Mosaic and go to town on the internet

[Target Practice]

Now fire up Trumpet WinSock and Mosaic and go to town on the internet

If you can find me a download link for those, I'd be more than happy to. Does it matter if I have cable? Edjamakate me, will ya'?

[Muzikman]

Yeah, they never made a tcp/ip socket for ethernet connections, so unless you can h4x0r it, I doubt it would work.

I'll look for a link though

[Muzikman]

ftp://ftp.ecsis.net/pub/netuser/win3.x/mosaic21.exe <-- there is Mosaic (This was the first GUI web browser. As a matter of fact, if you look at the "About" screen in IE, they reference it.)

This is an interesting site. It's got a lot of 16bit apps. http://www.ecsis.net/pub/netuser/win3x.htm


There is Trumpet WinSock http://www.winplanet.com/file/11542.htm

[Target Practice]

Yeah, they never made a tcp/ip socket for ethernet connections, so unless you can h4x0r it, I doubt it would work.

I'll look for a link though

Well, crap. How hard would be the h4x0r1ng be? It would be an awesome thing to have on the spare HDD.

[MantisMag]

That sounds a lot like a C64 or C128. Maybe a CoCo or TRS80.

(BTW, I had all those:))

C64. the giveaway is the 64K of RAM