Saturday, January 27, 2024

Blast from the Past

 


9 comments:

  1. Kids today think they are a computer whiz because of "plug and play".....

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  2. Windows 11 on floppy is the joke, 1 of two thousand four hundred and sixty nine disks! I still have a few of these for legacy systems, as do many others in industry.

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  3. We had an old Burroughs 9000(?) in thde early '80s, a real POS. 6.5" floppy disc, broke down 1-2x/week.

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  4. Worst engineering ever...microsoft...and floppies. Yuck!

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  5. And it'll lock up and BSoD you on disk 2468. How many time I got to disk 13 out of 13 and had to start over.

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  6. Nothing fancy and nothing Microsoft.

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  7. One the most amazing business strategies of all time! Build software loaded with viruses that beg for expensive vaccines to "fix" it. Sound familiar?

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