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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
Old techie joke: DOS = Disk Operating System -- before there was Windows!
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I thought that's what you were talking about.
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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
No insult or put-down intended - I work with people who think I am insane when I describe what PC's were like before Windows appeared - and don't believe that you used to have to put in/remove, etc. those huge 5" floppies just to boot the OS.
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I am so old I remember booting up the bank computers with 8" floppys. Little monochrome screen gave us the message modem ready MR. I thought for years it was being sexist and that women should not be booting up the computers. (they wouldn't let us handle the firearms)