MS-DOS: THE STORY THAT CHANGED THE COMPUTER WORLD

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  @davidgrisez · 8 months ago

  I am old enough that in years past I used both CP/M on a Heathkit H89 computer and MS-DOS on an IBM compatible computer. Those were the days of Command Line Operating Systems where the user had to type in commands. Today we have computer operating systems with graphical user interfaces. The computer I am using now is an Apple Mac Studio Computer with Apple Mac OS.

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• BO

  @bobe5402 · 8 months ago

  In the video, right after Tim Paterson&apos;s pic is shown, at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlCVsM8N4O8&amp;t=304">5:04</a> minute mark there is a picture of 3 programmers. They worked at DRI, Kathy Strutynski (Right) , Dave Brown (Left) and Doug Huskey (Middle). Kathy wrote CP/M-86 taking it over from Gary. After a month at DRI in 1980, Gary made me DRI&apos;s first Director of Software. DRI had a 3rd party port CP/M-86 to the PC (write a BIOS) with work in a single locked room (was John Pierce&apos;s office) , every entry and exit was logged. Afterwards, I meet Tim Paterson when he had left MSFT and founded Falcon Technologies.

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• AL

  @Altekameraden79 · 8 months ago

  Before I turned 3 in 92, my dad had paid $2,000 for a used 89 Packard Bell 316 something. Played 5 1/4 floppy games. Before AOL was a thing we had Compuserve internet making us probably some of the first 250k or 500k internet users.

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• BY

  @byronhorde5892 · 8 months ago

  MS-DOS 3.0, is where my journey began.

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• PA

  @PaulWinterscheidt-c7g · 8 months ago

  I had MS DOS 2.11 on a Tandy 1000HX. &nbsp;The thing had no hard drive. &nbsp;It ran everything from a single floppy drive and have 740k of RAM, which was an upgrade. &nbsp;It had an 8088 processor.

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  @summerwindcharters1326 · 7 months ago (edited)

  So, here we are in 2026....As a semi-retired painting contractor (71yo) I STILL use a MS-DOS Accounting Program that I bought in the 1980s! 😂

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• AD

  @Adder0130 · 5 months ago

  There is something so satisfying about working via command line. It makes me feel like I am really interacting with the computer&apos;s core and hardware.

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• TI

  @timbenner4162 · 8 months ago

  Wow, what a walk down memory lane. I&apos;m old enough to have used the Apple II computer.

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  @grubengeist · 4 months ago

  Ich habe in den 80er Jahren eine MS-DOS-Version für das IBM Schreibsystem 6580 eingeführt, um die vorhandenen Schreibsysteme auch als PC zu benutzen, z.B. für Adressdateien oder offene Posten für Mahnungen. Hat uns damals einen enormen Vorsprung verschafft und wir konnten die erste IBM PC-Generation überspringen.

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  @neorandy · 8 months ago

  My first computer was the Radio Shack/Tandy Model I level 2 with 16k and cassette drive. From there I ended up selling and supporting Tandy computers at a Radio Shack Computer Center. Windows for Workgroups became a platform that I could implement for my business customers. What a time to be alive.

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• PA

  @pacochales9507 · 4 months ago

  MS-DOS = Rock &amp; Roll + skateboard

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• MA

  @maxmuster7003 · 8 months ago (edited)

  The last years i used the DOSBox emulator to create&amp;run tiny executable files with batch files, inline assembly and debug. At last i changed my Picture to Character Converter from 112x112 pixel to 256x256 pixel to display animations inside a block of 32x16=512 ASCII character using two character sets at once at the default vga text screen.<br><br>I uploaded some animated gif files to an online converter to decrease the picture size and to extract the animation into single pictures with increasing numbers in the file names of the pictures. Some animated gif files have 240 animation sequences inside. Then i made some start batch files that call my converter batch file multiple times to convert the pictures into character files. After that it call an other batch file to load the character files one by one to display the animation.<br><br>I wrote a new comment on my converter video to share the animations as an open source project. Have fun.😊

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