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What is it? i had no idea. i had a trs-80, cassett tape & b/w tv. got bored with the novelty and went back to living life. yrs later, amiga 500 was my first computer. klikable icons and graphics from heaven. i couldn't figure out y IBMers were typeing adressess. i kliked icons, and did i mention the colors on my screen?
thanks to handles, lostinlodos's handle caused me to research 'lo dos'. never delt with it in my amiga. turns out that tiny little space, 640KB, was a tight spot.
The IBM Core: Typing Destinations in "Low DOS"The Text Prison: In 1987, when an IBM user turned on their machine, they were greeted by a stark, pitch-black screen with a cold, flashing green prompt: C:\>.The Manual Labor: To do anything—even just to open a folder—they had to manually type strict, unforgiving keyboard commands like CD\GAMES\DOS and then RUN.EXE. One single typo or missed backslash, and the machine threw a frustrating error.The Color Desert: Most business IBM PCs at the time were running basic CGA or EGA graphics, displaying a blocky, eye-straining mix of just 4 to 16 colors.
i had never done any of that.

The Amiga 500: Just Click the Icon and go.

i came to XP as next computer, totaly leap-frogging low dos.
thank you lostinlodos, making me research your handle, finding out i missed all that agony. (you didnt make me, i'm just a researcher at heart)
those were era's never to be lived again. all you guys n gals have untold power in your 24/7 personal trakers now. live the good life while you can. the gates to hell will be slaming shut shortly. cameras, cell trakers, bluetooth, wifi trakers, all tied to your phone. lost mine yrs ago, dont miss it except in hospital. no landlines in hospital rooms.

party on scrappers...

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chillin at Scrooge McDuck's place dreamin bout gold
and out of work comedian :lol:

oh, my handle?
a dude who grew up in cali and trucked with cb handle shaky.
ShakyDude

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chillin at Scrooge McDuck's place dreamin bout gold
and out of work comedian :lol:

whats a vowel amonst friends. e
e as in dos n dose.
squeakin in low dos or screamin in high dose amiga.

just sayin....

party on scrappers...

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chillin at Scrooge McDuck's place dreamin bout gold
and out of work comedian :lol:

Two out of the three times my debit card/bank account was hacked was when I was in the hospital for a week or so. Never had the debit card out of my wallet/pocket, but did have banking online on phone...but did not use the app. Still got hacked, and that was 5 years ago. Fortunately my bank refuses to honor debits from California or New York for the amount of 8 cents or even a one cent debit.

Honestly don't know which DOS I learned on but it had a 5.25 and 3.5 floppy drive and we had Apogee freeware games, so I learned the commands to navigate to the games.

Wish I had picked up more

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