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Are you old ancient enough to find this funny?[^] 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Where is config.sys?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Where is config.sys?
Hey! You'a say'a da tings about'a da config'a my systa, an you pay'a da price!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Fixed typos:
Where's config, sis?
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Yes, I'm justified and ancient 
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Dos days are gone now.
No I do not need to be ancient as it existed until Vista from what I recall.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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lw@zi wrote: Dos days are gone now.
The command line is expanding; look at powershell 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Check out the Q&A from the last week or so. There is someone in there doing development in MS-DOS and can't seem to be able to find various pieces of software that will work with it. Apparently he found a functional floppy disk drive though.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: Apparently he found a functional floppy disk drive though.
My last 2 or 3 motherboards lacked a floppy drive connector, so I couldn't install a non-USB drive if I wanted to. First time it happened I was disappointed -- I had a floppy drive that included a 8-in-1 card reader (drive had USB cable as well as EIDE), and I wanted to install it for the card reader. But stick-type SD-card readers are so common these days -- I have 5 or 6 sitting on my desk at home.
I have an unopened box of 3.5" floppy disks on my desk -- found it in the back of a supply cabinet. It's a novelty.
It's bizarre to think of 1.44 MB of storage compared to the the idea that 16 to 64 GB flash drives are so inexpensive.
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Very true. I have lots and lots of files that one fit on a floppy. They are virtually useless today.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Also, an autorun.inf file on a CD.
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What is this newfangled "CD" of which you speak? Is it anything like a 5¼" floppy? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: 5¼" floppy
Huh! Nothing! Back in my days, we used 8" floppy disks! AND we had cold gravel for dinner! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Luxury! We used to dream of having cold gravel for dinner!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yea, well, that's nothin'. Back in my day, before the 1 was discovered, we had to write all our programs using only 0s!! 
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Ah, the original Ghost script.
👻 000000000000000! 👻
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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WRONG ! I'm so old, we learned to program using 0 and lower case l's. None of your fancy 1's for us. Too easy.
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in 83 I had a cpm system running at 4Mhz with an 8" floppy, But also a 10 MEGA BYTE external hard drive, with removable platters. Luxury.
The rest of the system was crap.
Filled up my car if I took it home to work.
Ah. The good old days.
ASM all the way.
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Floppy? I had a teletype with punched tape.
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We had three teletypes in high school. Connected to a PDP-8 and PDP-12 at the university across town via acoustic coupler. One day someone dumped the hopper full of the holes from the punched tape all over the floor.
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When one of my friends married, we used stuff as a replacement for rice. (The groom was also a computer guy.)
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That wasn't a good idea. Those little paper discs were actually quite dangerous.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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I guess the rice could be said to be dangerous as well.
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I learned my first BASIC using one of those - located in the school's bomb shelter: Huge room with concrete walls, floor and ceiling. Just the right acoustics for a TTY!
Down in my basement, I have still got a few of those paper tapes.
(I also got a small pile of punch cards. As well as a core dump, in the physical sense: A frame with 1152 ferrite rings weaved together. I have no idea about the contents of those 1152 bits.)
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I started that way -- with punched tape, a teletype and remote GE time-share system using some flavor of BASIC.
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