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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
I first started reading on a Palm device and later switched to an iPaq (which was cheaper than the ereader then available (iRiver iirc). When the Sony PRS505 came available I ordered one and now I'm on my second Kindle.
Ah, I remember computer lesson in secondary school. We had to learn how to work with DOS (which was recently replaced by Windows 3.1) I didn't see much use for it since we had Apples and those were much easier to work with than DOS. I can also remember that my French teacher gave me a floppy disk to practice vocabulary with, we didn't have DOS, but the program also worked on our (even then) ancient Commodore 64.
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It must have been one of those disks with a Commodore 64 version on one side, and the version for another computer on the other side. I didn't see too many of those, but there were some. It meant you didn't have to distribute two different versions.
I found that DOS made it much easier to deal with the disk than other computers did. With computers like the Apple, Atari or C64, you're working from a BASIC prompt, while with the PC, you're working with a command line, and if you wanted to use basic, you ran basic like any other program.
The first computer I used with an Atari 400. At first, we didn't have a floppy drive, that was a luxury. We used cassette tapes.