r/nostalgiai • u/MoonSoul379 • 11h ago

Vintage Tech ☎️📻📠📟📷 I am :)

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u/TowTruckRebel 9h ago

C:/

C:/DOS

C:/DOS/RUN

RUN/DOS/RUN

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u/Silver_River9296 8h ago

That is when they lost me. I am so old I had

Fortran: which led to
Basic: which led to Commodore 64
Which led to cartridges
Which led to floppy disks and FD player
Which led to IBM getting into the PC market
Which led to an unknown language and process becoming the standard,
Which led to all of us Amateurs being chocked out of the home computer market.

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u/damn-otaku 6h ago

You forgot Tandy

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u/SailorDeath 5h ago

That good ol' trash-80

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u/berfle 4h ago

CLOAD

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u/Rishtu 3h ago

Had one of those... I think it was the Tandy 1000 SL,.

Monochrome monitor, no hard drive, 300 baud manual connect modem. Oh, and no Video Card/Adapter.

Took me 30 mins to download a picture. So we had ASCII pics!

Went outside, rode my town and country board....

/sigh

I really miss those times.

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u/KittiesRule1968 3h ago

My first computer was a Radio Shack co-co color computer with cassette tape external storage.

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u/nahman201893 2h ago

I think my stepdad had a Tandy 1000EX??

I could only ever get a printing program to work on it, but I was a kid so that was fun. Printing on the dot matrix printer less so. Very noisy.

The next machine had Wolfenstein on it.

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u/Electrical-Fix1461 1h ago

My first computer!!!

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u/wolfmann99 6h ago

punch cards or not?

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u/RustyBrassInstrument 3h ago

Sperry 1100/60 was my first big gig

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u/Livid_Mechanic7894 3h ago

I used to test and repair the Sperry 1100/80s before they went to the customers.

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u/Old_Celebration_5950 27m ago

There anguish of dropping a set of punch cards you were to lazy to number

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u/AfanasiiBorzoi 6h ago

How about Trashy 80?

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u/Reality_Lies4 1h ago

I miss GW Basic

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u/white-blade877 5h ago

Do you remember the Vic 20 and Dosshell?
At school we used the Nimbus RM

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u/Workinforweekends 2h ago

Still have a Vic 20 with cassette tape drive.

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u/white-blade877 1h ago

Did you ever use pole and peek commands? I used them with an end function and loop to make a hypnosis program.

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u/M0byd1cck 4h ago

Commodore 64 j adore

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u/addys 4h ago

Vic20 /w a 2K RAM upgrade, for a total of whopping 6K !!!

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u/sttwolf 2h ago

Assembly

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u/fr3nzo 2h ago

My first computer was a Texas Instruments TI 99.

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u/stevesie1984 48m ago

Remember when floppy disks were floppy? 😂

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u/Evenmoardakka 6h ago

the slash is inverted

c:\

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u/TowTruckRebel 6h ago

Sorry... its been a while since I used DOS lol

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u/Evenmoardakka 6h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/fWfV1hsvoOeQmzgB61

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u/TowTruckRebel 5h ago

Big fat phony... lol

I am old enough to have seen the evolution of personal computers and gaming consoles.

I was 6 when I got my first gaming system, the Atari Pong, brand new in the box and only out for about a year at that point.

I was 15 when Windows 1 came out and haven't had to use DOS since.

So forgive me if I couldn't remember what direction the slash leans, I was 15 when I started smoking weed and have smoked a lot since then so some things that have no impact on my life today like the way a slash goes / or \ in DOS is not a priority in my memory bank lol

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u/Evenmoardakka 5h ago

its a gif, its just making fun of the inverted slash, calm down

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u/TowTruckRebel 5h ago

I am calm, feeling real old now but calm lol

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u/SlurmBigPerm 3h ago

The internet is for jokes, man, it's ok. Okay it's for porn. But there's jokes, too.

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u/Workinforweekends 2h ago

And porn jokes.

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u/WitlessPedant 5h ago

/ is superior, anyway. Microsoft can keep their weird escape slash thing.

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u/Silent_Working7569 4h ago

It's called backslash.

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u/SlurmBigPerm 3h ago

Thank you, I was about to throw my phone, which given my age probably would have broken a joint somewhere

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u/Future-Bandicoot-823 5h ago

See dos run

Run dos, run!

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u/M4YH3MM4N4231 7h ago

Only one person in a million would find that funny

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u/TowTruckRebel 7h ago

Well, out of 651 views so far there are 12 upvotes so my guess your math is wrong

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u/M4YH3MM4N4231 5h ago

It was a reference :)

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u/Munch2507 6h ago

I remember the days dirring thru your computer just because you where bored

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u/RageLorenz32 6h ago

Lisa taught me this

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u/Anodyne11 4h ago

Simpsons did it

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u/ssmegheadd 3h ago

I had this on a shirt in high school. I wuz so kewl!

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u/yumi365 2h ago

C:\ myfiles help

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u/Lirahs 2h ago

How about the old "ready"? Commodore 64.

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u/Least_Elk8114 1h ago

Okay! I'm running

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u/CatManDo206 18m ago

Instead of having to use the symbols you can just go cd dos and then cd run