Happy Birthday MS-DOS

MacRS4 · 27 Jul 2011 at 16:49

Wasn't sure where to put this.

MS-DOS is effectively 30 today - 27 July 1981.... My how things have changed?

Have a look see.

joeyjojo · 27 Jul 2011 at 16:51

I feel it's beginning to show its age.

Glaucus · 27 Jul 2011 at 16:51

joeyjojo said:
I feel it's beginning to show its age.

Isn't it dead. So no birthday.

Didn't it die with xp?

HamZilla · 27 Jul 2011 at 16:53

The Daddy of OS. Salute.

Ewaf · 27 Jul 2011 at 16:53

Wow, the guy in that video is never going to get laid.

wakayoda · 27 Jul 2011 at 16:53

Why won't Battlefield 3 support this OS?

gothic_hobbit · 27 Jul 2011 at 16:53

I kind of miss the 'mem' command to see how much conventional memory was free

gillywibble · 27 Jul 2011 at 16:55

Haven't used true DOS for almost 15 years.

Happy birthday old thing.

2StepSteve · 27 Jul 2011 at 16:57

My school had a win 3.11 network. Looking back it was god awful, in fact even during the time I thought it was god awful and that there has to be something better than this.

Changing the clock from digital to analogue view was all we did during Design & Tech lessons.

Dj_Jestar · 27 Jul 2011 at 16:57

Ewaf said:
Wow, the guy in that video is never going to get laid.

The guy in that Video is the OP

2StepSteve · 27 Jul 2011 at 16:58

Ewaf said:
Wow, the guy in that video is never going to get laid.

Dj_Jestar said:
The guy in that Video is the OP

LOL!

Emlyn_Dewar · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:00

wakayoda said:
Why won't Battlefield 3 support this OS?

I really wanted to post something along these lines.
Curse you!

MacRS4 · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:10

Ewaf said:
Wow, the guy in that video is never going to get laid.

Ha, thanks

Doing ok on that front, but thanks for your concern!

DBT85 · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:21

To think, a whole plethora of people are using a PC now that have never used fdisk, typed DIR or cd.. or had to install office/windows from a billion floppy disks. My how the world has changed in such a short time.

kae2 · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:25

Todge said:
To think, a whole plethora of people are using a PC now that have never used fdisk, typed DIR or cd.. or had to install office/windows from a billion floppy disks. My how the world has changed in such a short time.

Only to find the 12th disk was corrupt... :mad:

Cosimo · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:26

Many Happy Returns! I still occasionally use the DOS prompt.

scrlk · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:28

Upgrading through all the Windows versions.

2StepSteve · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:29

I miss the days before motherboards were able to boot from CD.

The joy of pulling your hair out trying to find a floppy disk drive and a DOS floppy disk just start an installation of Win98 from CD.

Cosimo · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:30

A little for first timers:

http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm

Ghosteh · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:31

Ahhh brings back memories.. to about a year ago when I was doing my training to be a technician in the Army. Part of it was to build low spec PC's, give some idea of hardware to people who'd never touched it before. And once they were built, we were given the chance to install DOS 6.22, exciting times. Good to see the Army teaching relevant things lol.