Dan:
I was born in '86 so by the time I started playing on computers it was in the Windows 95 days, and my first time actually using a computer with any real idea of what I was doing was on Windows 98.
I played Lunar Lander in `73 on a Teletype.
By that time everything I needed to do was GUI based so I never really used DOS and the first time I ever used a command-line tool was in college with XP systems.
In `74, I typed punched-cards. The university computer centre had a turnaround time of two hours!
I'm also fascinated by older and alternative tech so I setup a VM and installed a copy of MS-DOS 6 and started practicing it using an old DOS guide from the early 90's that I found on the Internet Archive.
In `83, my first computer used BASIC as its operating system!
I primarily use it for distraction free writing (I'm boring and really like MS-EDIT, or whatever the built in text editor is), but I also enjoy the old games and exploring old programs like word processors, and the like.
I'm trying to learn how to print from FreeDOS to an Ethernet/USB laser printer.
OpenGEM is also cool.
In `84, I bought the second Mac sold in Victoria.
I just wiped my old ThinkPad (T42) to install FreeDOS on actual hardware and look forward to getting more familiar with it.
I had a palmtop the size of a large chocolate bar. It had DOS. -- members.iinet.net.au/~kilgallin/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
