r/nostalgiai • u/MoonSoul379 • 11h ago

Vintage Tech ☎️📻📠📟📷 I am :)

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u/Responsible-Exam-911 11h ago

I'm this old:

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u/mr-raider2 10h ago

Before MS-DOS there was IBM DOS>

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u/Sour_Sal 9h ago

And before that was CPM....

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u/GoblinGreenThumb 9h ago

Dunno what that was

But I discovered in high-school that windows 98 had no security around opening dos...which allowed me to place games on a couple shared network drives so I'd always have access.

Good times

They tried to blame the network crashing on my games... but my mom worked in tech so that was fun

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u/jkalchik99 8h ago

I remember CP/M. Supported it on Kaypro 10 luggables for a few years.

The joke there was that they were boat anchors.... but would probably float if thrown in the lake.

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u/GlykenT 6h ago

My exposure to CP/M was on Amstrad PCWs, with their green text and 3" discs

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u/mr-raider2 3h ago

I see your cpm and raise you one vax-11

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u/jkalchik99 3h ago

Oh, if'n ya wanna go there... IBM Sys/34.

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u/Peach_Proof 8h ago

And before that there were slide rules