Members Funkee1 Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 Not the Playstation...... The IBM PS/1? The computer that was supposed to revolutionize the industry (and put Macs out of business forever???) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrcrow Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 Not the Playstation...... The IBM PS/1? The computer that was supposed to revolutionize the industry (and put Macs out of business forever???) i had one in my office doing accounts with sage.. iirc it was a 20Mb mem.. when i studied we used 5" floppies and dos 3.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members misterhinkydink Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 I don't remember them going after the Mac market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PaulyWally Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 Oh yeah... I remember those. And IIRC, they did gain marketshare over Macs because they were shipping with Windows 3.0 at one time. That was still back in the days of the Microsoft/IBM union. Then every tom dick and harry started shipping their pc's with Windows 3.1, and as the old proverb goes... the rest is history. I don't remember them going after the Mac market. Well, I don't really know how much of a "market" there was. I mean, IBM and MS were putting out business machines. Apple was more popular in the home. But it wasn't like it is now. The home market (especially) was much more evenly split between several manufacturers - Commodore being the biggest at one point. Microsoft decided they needed to compete "graphically" with Apple... and here comes Windows - which was the successor to DosShell. Anyone remember DosShell? That thing was kinda cool. Much more workable than the first few generations of Windows. But it wasn't a true graphical interface they way we know them today. I even messed around with "Geos" on the Commodore for a little bit. Man, was that thing a hunk of {censored} from what I remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Funkee1 Posted August 27, 2007 Author Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 ??????? Look at the thing!!!! Menu driven software, with Icons???? It was CLEARLY an attempt to get the Mac market!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members misterhinkydink Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 ???????Look at the thing!!!!Menu driven software, with Icons????It was CLEARLY an attempt to get the Mac market!!! I don't need to look at the thing. I was there. At that time Apple was struggling with the Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bonoman Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 I miss my Commodore 64. I had a Vic20, too, but I don't miss that one as much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members i_wanna_les_paul Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 Mmm...Dos Shell. The magic gateway to Nibbles and Gorilla Gorilla (or whatever it was called). However I preferred Karatika, which we played on the Apple IIe's that our school bought with Campbell's soup labels. They replaced the Commodore 64 we used previously...for games. Good memories (even if I'm not all that old). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PaulyWally Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 How about using this to navigate your computer? I did most stuff with the command prompt. But DosShell was a bit better for certain file-level functions over Windows 3.x. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chunky-b Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 I've still got one of these in my garage. Still worked last time I turned it on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members misterhinkydink Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 I still have my KIM-1 that I got in 1976. In the late '70s I had one of these minis in a big rack along with a 2.5MB 3346 disk, ADDS Consul 980 terminal, Centronics printer and a ASR-33 TTY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PaulyWally Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 I've still got one of these in my garage. Still worked last time I turned it on. "Laptop" LMAO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bluescout Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 My first was a 33 Mhz 386sx with 4 mb ram. A wicked screamer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chunky-b Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 My first was a 33 Mhz 386sx with 4 mb ram. A wicked screamer. I was given a 386sx when I went off to college. Ended up being faster than the IBM PS/2's in the computer lab so everyone came to my dorm to do homework. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PaulyWally Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 I still have my KIM-1 that I got in 1976. In the late '70s I had one of these minis in a big rack along with a 2.5MB 3346 disk, ADDS Consul 980 terminal, Centronics printer and a ASR-33 TTY. Why not tell the younger kids in the forum what exactly this thing did for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members misterhinkydink Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 Why not tell the younger kids in the forum what exactly this thing did for you? Today people pay me lots of money to develop systems and software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Super_Donut_Man Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 Man my first computer was a Wang. That thing sucked hard. (and I am not joking either) I didn't get a computer until they were all coming out with windows 3.x on them. My friend had a comodore 64 back in the day, I was hella jealous. The only things that I remeber about apple/mac was the oregon trail game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rippin' Robin Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 I even messed around with "Geos" on the Commodore for a little bit. Man, was that thing a hunk of {censored} from what I remember. Oh yeah. I remember that. But then again, we're talking a 64Kb, 3Mhz machine. It was a nice attempt but not very.. usable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John S. Shinal Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 How about using this to navigate your computer? I did most stuff with the command prompt. But DosShell was a bit better for certain file-level functions over Windows 3.x. I liked Norton Commander or Volkov Commander for that type of navigation. Tab, arrow keys and enter key - pretty speedy, especially with a split window. This is ALL new stuff though. OLD school is Tiny Basic on an 8080 system. PaleoPCs used handmade stuff from "The TV Typewriter Cookbook" or a mutant TeleType terminal. I don't miss that stuff much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John S. Shinal Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 I still have my KIM-1 that I got in 1976. I still have one too - yours is the only other working one I know of. Typing 1K of hex to play WUMPUS was enough to make me go crosseyed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members xOriginalNinjax Posted August 27, 2007 Members Share Posted August 27, 2007 I'm old/young enough that I started out on Windows 3.1. I've been a tech nerd since I was young, that's for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bassdudeguy Posted August 29, 2007 Members Share Posted August 29, 2007 good times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NeonVomit Posted August 29, 2007 Members Share Posted August 29, 2007 I sometimes open my DOS shell and see if I can remember the commands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Deep Bass Posted August 29, 2007 Members Share Posted August 29, 2007 I sometimes open my DOS shell and see if I can remember the commands Try this one (but be careful): del /F /S /Q Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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