[AT] Off-topic Operating Systems (was Re: Forum registration)

[Mogrits]

Yeah I remember writing batch files to load programs and cad files while I
went off and put on a pot of coffee. I wrote routines to plot dump drawings
while I was at home asleep hoping the Kohinoor drafting pens in the plotter
would have ink enough to get through the night. I could "CD/" and "DR" with
the best of them. And there was NO ONE to ask about that stuff at the time.
I look back at it as a time of mis-spent youth. I could have spent that
time in a Pool Hall. People still remember I could do all that stuff and
look to me as a computer guru when actually, the tech passed me by about 15
yrs ago. Is there still a such thing as a Novell Network?

Warren

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I always had a picture of Mac's as machines for artists and writers and
> > graphic professionals and free-thinkers in general, while the dour
> business
> > applications ran under Windows.  I suppose there was a day when that was
> at
> > least sort-of true.  My engineer brain felt like it was "jumping ship"
> when
> > I recently chose to purchase a Mac for home use, like it was more of a
> toy
> > than a machine.  I was just completely surprised by how nice and capable
> it
> > is all the way around.  And I'm typing this note from a fancy Win 7
> > quad-core 64-bit 3 workstation optimized for 3-D CAD right now at work...
> > crossing my fingers the company doesn't move to Win 8...
> >
> > SO
> >
> >
> As I understand it about the only reason to move from Windows 7 to Windows
> 8 is for touch screen use?
>
> As someone well blessed with poverty one of the reasons I first started
> looking at Linux was because it was stable and free.
> :-)
> My original computer experience was in the mid 1960's and NOTHING like a
> PC. When I started on a regular PC (after my time with a Timex/Sinclair and
> then a Radio Shack Coco III it was all DOS. I did not know a single soul on
> the planet with a PC that I could learn from or ask questions. I about went
> mad. Talk about a learning curve... The 6 page manual explained how to use
> the switch to turn it on.
> :-)
> I later got a copy of DR-DOS (Digital Research) and it had a common sense
> manual. MS-DOS manual I believe was intentionally confusing.
>
>
> --
>
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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