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Offline Clive

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5 Things We Miss About Old-School Computing
« on: December 04, 2007, 09:00 »
PCs that started instantly and no Registry to worry about--what's not to like?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140150/article.html
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Re: 5 Things We Miss About Old-School Computing
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2007, 09:37 »
That will take Rik back!   :)

(We wish someone would!)  :devil: :laugh:
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Re: 5 Things We Miss About Old-School Computing
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2007, 09:51 »
Sue tried, but she couldn't get a refund.  ;D

I do miss the days of INI files. It was a doddle to move programs between machines, you just copied the entire installation directory (we didn't have folders back then!). I also remember using QEMM to manage the 2MB of RAM I had on my early PCs. Or the BBC Micro with 32K of RAM from which you had to find your video memory...  :pcpunch:
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