I'm just going outside for a while.

[Everest]

I had some 5 1/4" floppy installation discs for MS-DOS 6 I believe

I see your MS-DOS 6 on 5 1/4...
I'll raise you CP/M on IBM 8" Diskettes

 

[Gomev]

OK, you sad lot.

I still have a sealed disk set for DOS and windows 3.1, and a parallel printer cable.

Just in case!

Windows 3.1 my favourite. I have Win 95 disks.

 

[Fokmg]

I use pen and paper and still have my sliderule and still pay for things with cash

 

[siteguru]

I use pen and paper and still have my sliderule and still pay for things with cash

Cash? You use cash? I still pay for things by bartering goods.

 

[GaryMG4]

OK, you sad lot.

I still have a sealed disk set for DOS and windows 3.1, and a parallel printer cable.

Just in case!

its amazing the stuff we keep but will never use. I still have the tape drive and backup tapes for a computer I retired in 2004, SCUSI film scanner and a parallel print cable.

 

[mystreet]

OK, raise you a TWAIN cable.

Who knows what TWAIN is, no searching on the interweb thingy

 

[Everest]

Hmmm. my memory is not what is used to be - wasn't it an interface for scanners and the like - I vaguely remember needing a twain driver. Re the cable was it, IIRC, a funny square connector like a scart?

 

[Martinonline]

Ok, who's got the paper/mylar tape?

 

[Ian Key]

OK, raise you a TWAIN cable.

Who knows what TWAIN is, no searching on the interweb thingy

Thing Without An Interesting Name

And no I didn't look, I'm just old

 

[Ian Key]

I think I've got a Dynamo labeler somewhere that embosses a coloured plastic tape. You spend ages dialling each letter individually and putting a label on everything in site, then a couple of months later removing the sticky residue left behind because you've removed the label.

 

[Black estate]

OK, you sad lot.

I still have a sealed disk set for DOS and windows 3.1, and a parallel printer cable.

Just in case!

Have you a spare golf ball head for your printer

 

[emmrecs]

Thing Without An Interesting Name

I thought it was Technology Without An Interesting Name, wasn't it?

 

[Caramaddy]

Just had a nosey and found installation disks 1-7 for Lotus Ami Pro. Anyone else remember this being the foremost word processor software ?
Maybe I have Lotus 1-2-3 hanging around somewhere ?

Yes, I remember having a word processor with that ...... Early IBM compatible computer running the very first windows - so slow. My FIRST word processor was an Amstrad games machine! With Amstrad 3" floppy discs IIRC.

 

[mystreet]

I thought it was Technology Without An Interesting Name, wasn't it?

The winner

 

[Everest]

The winner

Now I'm in a huff... you didn't ask what it stood for

 

[siteguru]

Now I'm in a huff... you didn't ask what it stood for

I know - really bad form.

Who knows what TWAIN is, no searching on the interweb thingy

 

[dsimpkins]

All this talk of PCs, my first computer was an Atari 400 with 16K RAM, and a membrane keyboard. 8 bits of power! Still have the cassette tape drive from it, as well as an Atari 800 XL (64K RAM) and a 5.25" external floppy drive. Both also had cartridge slots for ROM modules.

Right I'm off to wait 45 minutes for space invaders to load from cassette.