@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 3 months ago[crumbles into dust]lemmy.worldimagemessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up128
arrow-up128image[crumbles into dust]lemmy.world@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 3 months agomessage-square92fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]cakelinkfedilink0•3 months agoOld enough to remember using a 3½” floppy disk to boot my first PC and mess around with GW/Q-BASIC and play DOS games. The disks were strongly perfumed (I guess the guy I bought my pirated games from liked to do that for some reason), and I still remember that aroma.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•3 months agoOld enough to remember why computers with no hard drives had 2 floppy drives: OS in A:, application in B:.
minus-squareMathiasTCKlinkfedilink1•3 months agoWhen you had to choose between booting your OS at all or loading Doom.
![[crumbles into dust]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/034f3400-6813-4e8c-b28a-18c23de1ee7d.jpeg){kind=link}
Old enough to remember using a 3½” floppy disk to boot my first PC and mess around with GW/Q-BASIC and play DOS games.
The disks were strongly perfumed (I guess the guy I bought my pirated games from liked to do that for some reason), and I still remember that aroma.
Old enough to remember why computers with no hard drives had 2 floppy drives: OS in A:, application in B:.
config.sys and autoexec.bat gang.
When you had to choose between booting your OS at all or loading Doom.
This guy nibbles… And Gorillas