Trogdor...

@Reid-Cooper said: The Shatner stuff is seriously classic. The "Shat"...you know, I never did see the faux Atari Boy and faux George Plimpton Vic-20 commercial before...I think there was another one like that with Colecovision before...not quite sure.

A classic Windows 98 Moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKtGXPfabLQ

That's the most classic DOS version. I had forgotten about the filesystem integrity issues of DOS 6.

@garak0410 said: I always wanted a copy of OS/2 to virtualize. Tried a few times and never could get it virtualized. Just for nostalgic reasons... I had some while I was at IBM. But even in 2000 they had basically transitioned away from it. But Token Ring was still going strong.

Now I'm going to have "Don't copy that floppy" stuck in my head.

In reality, NT in 1993 was surprisingly modern.

So ObjC was a Next product, not an Apple one?

You find the most archaic stuff. Serious trip down memory lane, though.

Not as interesting as some of the others that you have been finding.

If only they had known where these technologies would go and who some of these people would wind up becoming!

I'm from the Rochester LATA. No way to use a BBS there. You'd have to have been a millionaire to have afforded that.

@garak0410 said: @scottalanmiller I love these retro finds...good stuff. I watch several of these a day now

Weird. It embeds fine but doesn't play

Amiga 1000 was my first computer that we owned ourselves. Borrowed lots before then but that was the first that was ours.

It is really quite amazing how much they knew about how computing would evolve. It isn't very impressive.

@mary said in Bits and Bytes (1983): Episode 11 done. All the word processing power we have today is impressive compared to where we came from. Simple editing seemed laborious compared to today where we simply drag the mouse or click a button. Are hot keys from that era and were just carried over?It makes me wonder what things will look like 20 years from now. Yes, not only are hot keys from that era. But many of the specific hot keys that we use today are the same ones from then!

@Nic said: SAM's getting old and senile and reminiscing about the good old days Getting?

I dunno, a still find a lot of the pre-internet stuff quite shocking, even though I was there at the time. One of my best mates as a kid didn't have a phone in their house. So if I wanted to see him, I'd have to walk a mile to his house and knock on his door. Only to find he was out, and I'd have to walk home and try again later. Even though this was a part of my childhood, it still seems weird when I think back on it. Or in my first job, if I had a problem with Windows, I'd have to phone Microsoft, wait on hold for twenty minutes, then describe the problem to them and they'd give me the answer (or not!). Even sitting at a desk and feeding in 150 floppy disks in order to install Microsoft Office now seems totally weird. On the other hand, I'm still supporting dBase III applications, which is equally weird.