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What is DOS... damn kids these days

OPHELIA_HARDIN said:
Modem init strings were another cause for celebration... NOT!
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Oh but they were fun for scripting. Way back when MS had a "fax-back service" where one could call in, enter a document code and receive the information via fax. It would retry 3 times in 5 minute intervals. Sooo, I wrote a little batch file that took the return number as input. I would run it, enter the phone number and off it went ordering documents. I used it to slam my high school deans at 2AM and anyone else that bugged me.

star-warrior said:
telnet anyone? The original internet.
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I still use it just not on any forward-facing appliances. I remember using it at school back in the early 90's. I think I still have a binder with listings of telnet hosts and newsgroups from 1991/1992. I remember having to sneak in to the computer lab to print the 80 pages on the ONLY laser printer which was reserved for staff.

How about a null modem cable?
 
looseliam said:
The executable and data file are under 2.5MB - (pkzip to 2 floppies ..|)
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Oh ..wow i remember many times having to pkzip things and span multiple floppies :) ahh the good? old days LOL

looseliam said:
The executable contains the tracker to play the mods and all samples. 9 minutes of assembly goodness.
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Another one :eek: that brings back good old memories ... .MOD & .S3M soundfiles :) I can remember downloading many of those back in the day & .. good stuff there
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And then I found .S3M soundfiles ... many hours were wasted playing with Screamtracker/making crazy stuff...
 
looseliam said:
Oh but they were fun for scripting. Way back when MS had a "fax-back service" where one could call in, enter a document code and receive the information via fax. It would retry 3 times in 5 minute intervals. Sooo, I wrote a little batch file that took the return number as input. I would run it, enter the phone number and off it went ordering documents. I used it to slam my high school deans at 2AM and anyone else that bugged me.
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One word: Telix
 
how about some dos shell :lol:
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long live norton commander ;)
 
I never used norton commander, mainly because my friend's dad didn't buy it. That's where I got most of my proggies before I had dialup :lol: G-d bless the mass-mails!

My favs:

XTreeGold
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I loved XTreeGold. It had a 'prune' feature. With only <500MB of space back then, I could go through the folders, mark files for deletion then delete them all in one step. It would also give one the file count. I recall thinking "omg, I have almost 5,000 files!"

I still get the urge now and then to go and prune and wish something was out there like XTreeGold. Perhaps there is and I don't know about it.

Direct Access:
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My high school used direct access. So did my friend's dad. We found a way to bypass it and had our way at the command prompt.

When windows 95 came about, we replaced the shut-down splash image. Instead of "it is now safe to turn off your computer" to "it is not safe to turn off your computer." I swear that most of the computer sat for days whilst the librarians and tech support were running around "zomg we can't turn them off."

direct_access_v5.1.pngXtreegold-3.0.png
 
there is a program like that .. it makes you visual graphs of file usage in the directory tree. and you can expand the nodes to get sub-graphs. but i forgot the name ;)
 
I recall my computer science teacher 'copying' the flight simulator diskette on an Apple ][e back in the 80's.

It involved 2 open cased floppy drives, a tuning wand on the pot for the write-head voltage of the writing drive, and a bloody oscilloscope reading voltage fluctuations to the heads allowing tuning to compensate for the 'DRM' differential on the read vs. write data.

Ah, the good ol' days!

(A 'cracked' copy arrived in the mail the day after this all-day session)
 
Hmm...I just copied and pasted those links - I didn't linkify text. At first I thought a MOD must have edited the post, but attempting to post them again this time while paying attention, it seems to happen automagically here at JUB now - nice feature!
 
^ The links in your original post worked just fine for me.
 
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