#%^&%$# Window 8

[Anonymous]

Haven't you guys noticed: There's never been a successful, useful, reliable version of Windows that was an even number? Remember windows 2,4, 2000, millenium....

Windows only works in odd numbers

you mean like windows 3 ..? or windows 95 ..? (if i remember correctly the best thing about windows 95 was the Rolling Stones start me up Song)

YES I AM OLD - I remember the 10 meg hard-drive was as big as a cereal box (used them in the XT Computers) - I also remember paying $405.00 Canadian for (4) 1 Meg sticks of Ram..... Now i have 32 Gigs of memory in my Sun Glasses (covert camera)


And I agree with McG - 2000 was the best version all things considered

 

[Ansimp]

I still have my genuine copy of 2000 pro which I loved to death. It was with great regret when I upgraded to xp but now love it as well. Still coming to grips with 7 on my old Xp laptop. It does take me ages to find stuff but I am getting better :good:

 

[toytender01]

What about the ones before Ms versions????? when they still used Basic!!!!!

 

[backlander]

My first was a TRS-80 from Radio Shack, you guessed it, you had to learn BASIC to use it. 1977 there were very few small programs so you had to write your own. It used a cassette player to run the couple of programs and stored the data on cassette, using a B&W TV as a monitor. I still have it.

 

[Anonymous]

My first was a TRS-80 from Radio Shack, you guessed it, you had to learn BASIC to use it. 1977 there were very few small programs so you had to write your own. It used a cassette player to run the couple of programs and stored the data on cassette, using a B&W TV as a monitor. I still have it.

That's reaching back a few years .. I remember those but did not have one.

i used to belong to a computer group, we met once a week and fixed old computers for the schools Xt's and on up to the 486's - at that point they decided this computer thing might catch on and they started budgeting for new ones.

 

[Steve83]

I guess I kinda have a computer museum. '77 TRS-80 (4k RAM!), TRS-80 Model III (16mb RAM, 8" floppies), Amiga 1000 (1mb RAM!), IBM System 36 - weighs more than my Wing, and the hard drives are 18" in diameter! Apple 2-E, Mac Plus, Mac Color Classic...

I use XP on the PC, but I really love my Mac G4! They're all fun - when they're working...

 

[dan filipi]

I started with a 286 running DOS.
Then the school I was working for let me have a 386! Man that was like gold to me!
It could run Windows 3.1 but slowed down running Win 95 but I didn't know the difference, I was getting on the internet!

Man was that ever exciting back then. Listening to the dialup modem crackle then go silent and watching a internet page appear on the screen!

Can't remember when I finally got was I was dreaming of, a 486.
They were smokin fast in the day, Lol.

I have I think every version of Windows from 3.0 up.
I like 7 the most so far.
Seems I'm in the minority.
I find it's the most stable and secure version yet.

 

[brianinpa]

I still have my Commadore 64 and 128D on the attic then I also have a 286, 386, and P2. I just can't bring myself to throw them out. I know the keyboards now have more computing power than those old machines, but they are just neat to look as some times.

 

[mcgovern61]

Man was that ever exciting back then. Listening to the dialup modem crackle then go silent and watching a internet page appear on the screen!

Yeah man! :Egyptian:

When I setup my ferry business back in 1997, I had dial up and it was a challenge on my local phone costs because Bell Atlantic charged "Message Units" for time online and it could reach a hefty fee for use that far exceeded the monthly access charge! :rant:

Later on, I got the first DSL for business service and it was a rocket! :yes:

Turned out I had a great advantage over many businesses and personal phone lines. My office was on a barge located on the Delaware River in the city of Camden, NJ and the phone lines were from the early 1900's. Normally, most people would balk at such old wire, but it turns out them old copper lines were HUGE! No resistance, (and no one else using them in my area) so my speeds at that time exceeded anything cable could produce in that area!

If I connected to the internet, the pages loaded instantly, just as if they were in my computer. Never a wait or lag for a page to load and that was with WIN 98, P2-300, 512 RAM. I built my new computer in 2001 with a P4 1.8, 1gb RAM and WIN 2000 Pro on that same DSL service and it was absolutely incredible speeds!

 

[Anonymous]

I started with a 286 running DOS.
Then the school I was working for let me have a 386! Man that was like gold to me!
It could run Windows 3.1 but slowed down running Win 95 but I didn't know the difference, I was getting on the internet!

Man was that ever exciting back then. Listening to the dialup modem crackle then go silent and watching a internet page appear on the screen!

Can't remember when I finally got was I was dreaming of, a 486.
They were smokin fast in the day, Lol.

I have I think every version of Windows from 3.0 up.
I like 7 the most so far.
Seems I'm in the minority.
I find it's the most stable and secure version yet.

I was at a customers site the other day and needed a manual from the internet - customer says no problem use mine... DIAL UP .... I waited and waited and waited and waited ... till finally I couldn't stand it another minute so I unplugged it went out to the truck and drove back to the office downloaded the file and and returned to the site ... I brought with me a new 2013 calender and told him next time he goes shopping for a computer to bring this with him so the salesperson knows what to give him.

 

[Ansimp]

It is hard to go backwards.....

 

[David Mantle]

Prefer Linux myself.

 

[brianinpa]

It is hard to go backwards.....

And it some cases it really isn't better to try to.

 

[toytender01]

I still have a TRS100 with all programs and excessories in the garage. Worked for Radio Shack and sold there first TRS 80.