I Must Be An Old Phart

[echnidna]

just found this phrase online

old guys who ran on 386 computers had the skills equavalent to a turn of the century wooden furniture maker

an I thought 386's were the bees knees when I was running an XT.:D

[David L]

What, you mean there not any more?

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Maybe so, but the corollary is that people who build modern PC's are just Ikea flat-pack assemblers... and replaceable by trained monkeys. :p

[silentC]

We had a Compaq 386 at work. It cost about $12,000. We used it to play Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizard on overnight shift. I think there was some work-related use for it too, but not sure what that was...

[wheelinround]

just found this phrase online

old guys who ran on 386 computers had the skills equavalent to a turn of the century wooden furniture maker

an I thought 386's were the bees knees when I was running an XT.:D


I still have a few 486 CPU's floating about as well as a couple of megs of memory 8 in all a 40 meg HDD a 150 and 250meg belonged to a solicitor had to get files of it so he could upgrae to his PIII

I still have my PI Dos 3, Win 3 disks Worperfect 5.1 Lotus

Had a situation where I needed to get off a floppy documents done on a wordprocessor/typwriter some time ago 1999 it was Wordperfect 4 took a little work but did it.

[Stuart]

I've said it before - I still have a fully functional Apple ][e here in my office (and a 386, a 486 DX4-100, a P3, a ZX81, a P4, and a Dual Core 2 MacBookPro, copies of Windows 3.11 and Dos 6.22a both still in original shrink-wrap)

[Gra]

and replaceable by trained monkeys. :p

I think a couple of the ones at work were assembled by monkeys.....

[Grunt]

I've got a computer that is so old, it is made from matches.

[echnidna]

surely your shrinkwrapped software is history now.
Floppies don't last all that long.

[wheelinround]

surely your shrinkwrapped software is history now.
Floppies don't last all that long.

All mine still work I check them now and again even have transfered to CD.

[echnidna]

Mine died years ago,
but they're all on cd