"it's now safe to turn off your computer"
That's how old I am
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Fuck
And the power switch was like KA-JUNK when you pushed it, because it was a big ol' switch that actually physically connected and disconnected the power.
"It's now safe to turn off your computer" went away after we moved to software power control, where the operating system could signal the power supply to turn off.
I had to type "/win" to boot up Windows
Into what did you type that? Wouldn't something already have to have booted first in order to type it?
Dos, windows was just a normal dos program you had to start like anything else until windows 95
And when Win95 booted, you exited into the DOS prompt, the true gaming environment at the time.
This PC booted up in DOS
The one I remember best was having to use the DOS 'park' command before you shut down the PC. I guess I am that old.
Huh, never ever seen that. We always used the rule "yoi can shutdown the computer when you can see the C:".
What does park do? Put the HDD arm into a parked position? Never needed that for ours, but we also had a blazingly fast 486 with a massive 250 MB hdd.
Yeah, old drives didn't autopark like the IDE drive in your spiffy 486. I had an XT growing up, and dad was militant about having us remember to park the drive when we were done with it. I think by the end of the 80s, all drives were IDE and were autoparking, so the command was deprecated.
Win7 isn't that old.
People born when Windows 7 was released can get a driver's license in many parts of the world
Fuck I'm old.
I mean, I'm in my early 40s and I've started with ms-dos. According to this meme what am I? A fucking dinosaur? Am I that old?
I remember playing a hotseat game with my friend and his brothers ( I think heroes of might and magic 2) and I accidentally big toed the power button, just like in this picture ๐
Everyone was pretty gutted, although we then found out that autosave happened every turn, what a releif.
Nah, old(er) people would boot directly to a BASIC editor.
I'm in my late 20s and started with ms-dos too. And even tried OS/2 to check I wasn't missing something before upgrading to 3.1 then XP ๐
mine
Shit, I'm old...
If you stare at it long enough the clouds start to move a little
What's all this newfangled content being posted as old? My first computer had Windows 3.11 that you booted to from a command prompt. It was an amazing graphical upgrade from the command line computers. Now you could actually see what you were doing on the screen instead of typing commands and hoping a document would print with your data.
Before that, I used Apple IIe computers at school, with their solidly green command line interface. I remember being taught how to program instructions with those computers. You had a "turtle" (green triangle) that you needed to move to a specific spot on the screen, and you typed in commands to make him move.
Whatever content is in this meme, it all released long after I grew up and became an adult. You young whippersnappers.
Millennials are now "old" by internet standards, so Gen X and older are positively ancient.
I'm this old: 
I still remember using Windows machine for the first time after only having a Commodore 64 and Nintendos. I specifically remember thinking it was dumb because it didnโt have a cartridge slot.
I am Reversi Hearts Freecell Solitaire Minesweeper 3d pinball for windows old.
I am "write your own shit in GWBASIC" old.
I still use Winrar.
7zip is better.
Unironically, 7zip is the best. It's widely available, open source, and.... Multithreaded. Really helps when I need to compress a few hundred gigs of experimental data at the 24 core workstation.
I need someone do this with XP
I remember dialing into bulletin board services to leave chat comments and share small files that would take hours to download.
So many games of Spider Solitaire
Someone with more skill and time than me should do one of these for System 7 Macs.
Mortal Pongbat, Netscape, ResEdit for hacking games, Oscar in the Trash Can, Marathon, MacAddict CDs.
Good times.
Those speakers were great though!
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