How old are you?

[Striker879]

 

ah Calvin and Hobs love them. Dilbert is better but I do like em.

 

Dilbert. Alright!!!

 

I still have a set of 3 1/2 inch floppies for the computer software Dilbert Daily calendar. I was turning the corner at 49 when I bought it. That was back when Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition came out.

 

 

And we hear from another of the dinosaurs ... who said we went extinct, eh Paga!!

 

I think I could dig up some Win 3.1 and 3.11 disks if you want, and probably a couple or three DOS versions will be in the same box tucked away somewhere in the dark recesses of the Striker Manor.

[instyne49]

 

 

ah Calvin and Hobs love them. Dilbert is better but I do like em.

 

Dilbert. Alright!!!

 

I still have a set of 3 1/2 inch floppies for the computer software Dilbert Daily calendar. I was turning the corner at 49 when I bought it. That was back when Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition came out.

 

 

And we hear from another of the dinosaurs ... who said we went extinct, eh Paga!!

 

I think I could dig up some Win 3.1 and 3.11 disks if you want, and probably a couple or three DOS versions will be in the same box tucked away somewhere in the dark recesses of the Striker Manor.

 

I have original copies of win 95 and two machines that could potentially run them if I put a new mos battery in. Actually if you don't count 3.1 and earlier I have physical copies of everything except Windows Vista. But then I also have the original GameCube with controllers and the Prince of Persia series and a couple of Zelda games.

[Striker879]

 

 

 

ah Calvin and Hobs love them. Dilbert is better but I do like em.

 

Dilbert. Alright!!!

 

I still have a set of 3 1/2 inch floppies for the computer software Dilbert Daily calendar. I was turning the corner at 49 when I bought it. That was back when Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition came out.

 

 

And we hear from another of the dinosaurs ... who said we went extinct, eh Paga!!

 

I think I could dig up some Win 3.1 and 3.11 disks if you want, and probably a couple or three DOS versions will be in the same box tucked away somewhere in the dark recesses of the Striker Manor.

 

I have original copies of win 95 and two machines that could potentially run them if I put a new mos battery in. Actually if you don't count 3.1 and earlier I have physical copies of everything except Windows Vista. But then I also have the original GameCube with controllers and the Prince of Persia series and a couple of Zelda games.

 

 

LOL ... see how quickly the old guys get onto "Oh ya ... well mines older than yours".

 

Young guys are all about faster, bigger ... stuff like that.

[HeyYou]

I have MSDOS 6.22 on floppy..... Of course, I don't have a machine with a floppy drive any more..... :D

 

I have original disks for (CD) for win 95, and win 98 SE..... Win 7, of course, and the installer for Win 10. I won't touch Vista, or Windows 8/8.1. They just sucked. :D

[Striker879]

I have the floppy drves if you have a motherboard with the right connections (only have internal 3.5's). My current ASUS Striker Extreme (how could I not buy that motherboard, eh?) has the spot to plug 'em in (required for my "old ways" ... Mr RAID 0 on Win XP and earlier, well until I got tired of the reinstalls due to dead 0's).

 

Ah ... 6.22 was the best!

[DoctorKaizeld]

well I mean I still have my original copies of the Command and Conquer franchise and almost every Legend of Zelda game on their original consoles including the very first one...

[Striker879]

well I mean I still have my original copies of the Command and Conquer franchise and almost every Legend of Zelda game on their original consoles including the very first one...

 

So the good Dr is wanting to play the old guy's game eh?

 

OK, I'll see your C&C and raise you a set of WingCommander Privateer on 3.5 floppies!!

[DoctorKaizeld]

 

well I mean I still have my original copies of the Command and Conquer franchise and almost every Legend of Zelda game on their original consoles including the very first one...

 

So the good Dr is wanting to play the old guy's game eh?

 

OK, I'll see your C&C and raise you a set of WingCommander Privateer on 3.5 floppies!!

 

psssh who doesn't! well me... brother owns that... but I have the first windows version of Myst!

[Striker879]

 

 

well I mean I still have my original copies of the Command and Conquer franchise and almost every Legend of Zelda game on their original consoles including the very first one...

 

So the good Dr is wanting to play the old guy's game eh?

 

OK, I'll see your C&C and raise you a set of WingCommander Privateer on 3.5 floppies!!

 

psssh who doesn't! well me... brother owns that... but I have the first windows version of Myst!

 

 

Ahh ... my Mom had that!! I had to drive all the way to Toronto to get it installed for her (4 hrs, so not really a big deal). She loved that game!!

 

OK ... point for the Dr ... play on!!

 

- Edit - You're doin' pretty well for a whipper snipper ... playin' with the geezers and all!!

[Deleted54170User]

I just got back from a Halloween scavenger hunt.

 

About the video games. I had a system that the only way the computer did anything is if I put a 5 1/4 inch floppy in waited for the 2 GB of RAM to load and draw the starter lines.

 

I will have to go out and dust them 5 1/4 inch boxed old floppy disks off if I... wait... Working. There's one of the memory points in my memory. Working. Just to refresh my memory what the boxes of 5 1/4 inch floppy disk games were may take awhile ... Working ... if I don't just go out to the building and dust off the boxes and read the names of the 5 1/4 inch floppy disks.. Working..

 

I remember having to wait for the initiating 5 1/4 inch floppy disk to finished loading. Then I had to pull it and put another 5 1/4 inch floppy disk in to continue to load the word processor. Once I had the 6 - 5 1/4 Inch floppies set up I could type until I had used up 1.80 GB of RAM. Then I put a 3 1/2 inch floppy into the 3 1/2 inch floppy to save the text. Save. Working.

 

I remember I needed a Daughter board to enhance the video cards memory and couldn't play the newest game that it had. The computer was a hand me down.

 

I found out the Daughter Boards were no longer available. But I needed it for that newest game!

 

The last one that worked without the Daughter Board was something about a castle and finding all the secrets along the passages. While avoiding getting killed by skeletons that came out of secret passages along the way. The old computer with it's two 5 1/4 inch floppy disk slot and the one 3 1/2 inch floppy disk drive may still be under some dust that has accumulated in the old brick building out back.

 

If it hasn't been carried off by several old mice and the flight controller Joysticks out there too. I saw a nintendo machine when I was passing by the ancient still working single view Oscilloscope. I suppose the old 2 GB RAM and the video card in a huge five inch tall metal box could make one of todays youngsters cry just having to wait, load, play, wait, load, Save Game. Wait, load, switch to a 3 1/2 inch back to 5 1/4 inch load. Insert second drives follow up 5 1/4 inch floppy disk and wait. Work or play another couple of minutes.

 

Don't forget to Save or you have to go back to the 1st 5 1/4 inch game disk initiate the game again up to the Save you had before you forgot to Save the last time. And play all the way through the five minutes of the last portion of the game again from there to where you forgot to Save.

 

Hm? My memory is working. :sweat: Working. Majel Barret is repeating the word; Working. I think that was the Windows 3.ll my memory has made it back to so far.

 

This may take awhile, because my brain has to go through all the steps to the past to where I last remember playing with that machine. :sweat: Come back tomorrow. Working. That might have been Windows 95 on a modern computer with 16 or 32 Gigabytes of RAM. :whistling: Hm? I just remember it was 2 GB of RAM and the Daughter Board would have given the video card a boast of 2 GB or 4 GB.. :laugh: