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Riverside Laker Member
Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 2818 | TRs | Pics
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I remember when NWhikers was born, back in the dark ages. WTA had closed down their chat feature. Ah, thems were the days. Perhaps some readers of this site weren't born yet.
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Cyclopath Faster than light
Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Posts: 7694 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
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Thu May 28, 2020 5:28 pm
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I didn't plan or expect this to make people nostalgic although I shouldn't be surprised. I just thought it would make a few people laugh to see middle aged and older people fooling the kids these days. I love the last screenshot where the youth clearly isn't sure if he's being messed with or not.
But if it's a happy nostalgia I'll take it.
My first computer had BASIC as an operating system. Second one, too. This obviously set me up for a life of sedentary misadventure. Not that I can complain, I get to work from home, don't do physical labor, etc. I remember my mom spending $400 on a 20 MB hard disc, probably around 1990. It was a luxury at the time.
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moonspots Happy Curmudgeon
Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 2456 | TRs | Pics Location: North Dakota |
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moonspots
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Fri May 29, 2020 5:09 pm
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"Out, OUT you demons of Stupidity"! - St Dogbert, patron Saint of Technology
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Randito Snarky Member
Joined: 27 Jul 2008 Posts: 9495 | TRs | Pics Location: Bellevue at the moment. |
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Randito
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Fri May 29, 2020 6:05 pm
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Kim Brown Member
Joined: 13 Jul 2009 Posts: 6900 | TRs | Pics
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I started working in the Risk Dept at Texas Instruments in 1987. No Windows; no mouse, all DOS and keyboard. Typed in long, looonng strings to get data from the Aston Tate dBase. No mouse, no click & get. Hand-typed strings with all kinds of punctuation. I was really good at it.
Anyway, my first day, I had word processing training on a program they used, called Samna. They had tested WordPerfect and Samna, and thought that Samna was going to be the one to soar. But it didn't.
Then I went into their legal dept, which did use WordPerfect. What a pain in the ass software that was. Learning all the keystrokes to do one thing was such a hassle. No mouse, mind you. Good Lord, what a pain in the ass. I also learned Harvard Graphics.
TI had the world's 2nd largest electronic messaging system (the US military was first; at least that's what I was told). We called it "M-S-G." "Hey, Teresa, did you send Mike that M-S-G? "
You'd go to DOS (alt-tab, and only 2 programs available at a time), and type MSG then your 4-letter handle, then and the recipents 4-letter handle. One person's handle was SEXY. It really was. Back then you could do that & get away with it.
"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
Bosterson, NWHiker's marketing expert
"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
Bosterson, NWHiker's marketing expert
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Cyclopath Faster than light
Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Posts: 7694 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
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Cyclopath
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Fri May 29, 2020 10:03 pm
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We made a messaging system at my last job, feature inside a larger product, you could send things specific to that software. We polled every 60 seconds for new messages. Since it wasn't instant, I started calling it Pretty Quick Messaging. Caught on in the office, I wish that went on the "box."
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trestle Member
Joined: 17 Aug 2008 Posts: 2093 | TRs | Pics Location: the Oly Pen |
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trestle
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Sun May 31, 2020 7:16 pm
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Can someone please help me extract some files from a Zip drive?
"Life favors the prepared." - Edna Mode
"Life favors the prepared." - Edna Mode
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neek Member
Joined: 12 Sep 2011 Posts: 2329 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle, WA |
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neek
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Sun May 31, 2020 7:32 pm
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trestle wrote: | Can someone please help me extract some files from a Zip drive? |
I actually had to do that recently. Found a cheap one on craigslist. The disks worked fine. OK "recently" was more like 10 years ago but whatever.
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Seventy2002 Member
Joined: 19 Jul 2008 Posts: 512 | TRs | Pics
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I've got Zip drive with power supply and cable. It's one step away from the trash bion. Anyone who needs it can have it for postage.
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