Rasta,
@Rasta@mstdn.ca avatar

I was always a geek.

In Windoze, I'd drop to DOS to move around.
When I encountered Win95, I had to wait?
"IT IS NOW SAFE TO TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER"

I made the on/off decisions, I didn't like it already, so I uninstalled it and went back my old DOS6.

Life was good. Duke Nukem ran on DOS.

TCMuffin,
@TCMuffin@toot.wales avatar

@Rasta

I remember those days fondly ❤️

I had different config.sys and autoexec.bat files to run at startup, depending on what I wanted to do with the computer.

Rasta,
@Rasta@mstdn.ca avatar

@TCMuffin HA! How come you weren't my lab partner on the A+ Cert course?
I wrote my own Autoexec.bat to do virus updates before these automatic systems came out. We'd get one disk in the mail and install it on 30 computers.. I'd batch file everything. I miss DOS

TCMuffin,
@TCMuffin@toot.wales avatar

@Rasta

We'd have had a blast...especially as I'm ex-Royal Naval Reserve too!

From memory, I had three boot options, one each for games, spreadsheets/word processing, etc., and systems stuff and coding 🤔

I miss DOS too 😢

Rasta,
@Rasta@mstdn.ca avatar

@TCMuffin We had restrictions on Personal computers at work, and software, such as shareware was also not allowed on Government machines. To circumvent the rules, I brought in a computer for my desk with no hard drive. It just sat there looking bulky. But boot from a floppy disk to a BBS and I'd check messages on my lunch hour. They had no understanding in those days.. They put me in charge of IT Security after that

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