Lee B Posted March 29, 2017 Report Share Posted March 29, 2017 Microsoft is releasing a major update for Win 10 on April 11th. If you don't want to wrestle with all the changes, turn off your automatic update setting until after tax season 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abby Normal Posted March 29, 2017 Report Share Posted March 29, 2017 https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 So glad I didn't 'upgrade' to 10. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILLMAS Posted March 29, 2017 Report Share Posted March 29, 2017 Good thing I am still on Win 7 Pro. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted March 29, 2017 Report Share Posted March 29, 2017 Justifiable homicide. That is (or should be!) the nickname of this "major update" and I thank God that I am still on Win7Pro64-bit. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberts Posted March 29, 2017 Report Share Posted March 29, 2017 Good thing I'm still using DOS 3.1 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abby Normal Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 When I finally have to move to 10 (sad day), I'm going to consider using the Enterprise version, but that decision is years off. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack from Ohio Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 21 hours ago, Roberts said: Good thing I'm still using DOS 3.1 I still have a sealed package of 3 1/2 disks of DOS 6.22. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 I still have the installation disks for Word 5.0, too. Not sealed, though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abby Normal Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 20 minutes ago, Jack from Ohio said: I still have a sealed package of 3 1/2 disks of DOS 6.22. And no disk drive to put them into. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jklcpa Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 Check out what I still had in the closet: a storage box for 5.25" floppies with disks inside. AICPA's ATB program from 1990-91 and DOS 6.2 Plus the enhanced tools. Chessmaster too. lol That disk is high density, mind you, and holds a whopping 1.2 MB each. I could scrounge up some old blank cassette tapes too if anyone needs some. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack from Ohio Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 1 hour ago, Abby Normal said: And no disk drive to put them into. I have the drives, but modern motherboards do not include a serial plug on them. I even have 5" disks and drives. Same issue. No place to plug them in on new motherboards. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberts Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 In college we "learned" a version of a word processing program, a spreadsheet type program and a database type program. This was before MS offered any such programs that I'm aware of. All three programs came on a single 5.25". My first version of Lotus 123 I bought used - it was something like 25 3.5" floppies. That computer class was 1 semester and 1/2 mainframe and 1/2 PC oriented. I could do all the PC stuff, my fraternity brother handled the mainframe program. You didn't even have to submit a program - you submitted a printout of the program on green bar paper. Weird times. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 I still have a Macintosh 180c laptop - that still runs! 8" (or so) *color* screen. Built-in trackball (and no laptop since then has ever had any system so nice for screen maneuvering). Still has "KidPix" on it that my girls used when Gwen was 1 1/2 (she's my younger girl, the 24-year old who just bought a house last fall...) And I still make the sounds like the KidPix narrator made when something got erased. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jklcpa Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 One of my computer classes was to learn COBOL, to write a simple program for a task and run it. If it wouldn't run, we had to debug it too until it worked. This was before PCs were everywhere and so we had to reserve time to use one of my school's few terminals and had to log in remotely to time that the school purchased on Stanford U's system. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberts Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 Judy, my wife has a cousin who makes a very good living still programing in COBOL and FORTRAN languages. It's bizarre but we have a local company that has a few old programs that run those languages and they've determined it's just cheaper to pay her a large salary to keep them running than pay a massive amount one time to replace them. When she retires in 5 years - they'll just declare the programs have died and the clients who use the information it generates are out of luck. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abby Normal Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 Anyone here remember the old 8" floppy disks. SS SD. I can't remember the capacity. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneInAlabama Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 I remember the 8" floppies. The firm I worked for at the time had three computers that used those. You would enter the information into the computer and it would take 20 minutes for the computer to process it and print out a report. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 I remember 8" floppies - the secretaries used them at DEC (Digital) to keep copies of letters etc. My first foray into computers was with keypunch cards. A LONG wait to punch your cards, hand them in to the mainframe, come back in an hour to see where your program barfed (fortran), wait in line for the keypunch machines while you tried to figure out how to fix the mess. Rinse and repeat. Anyone remember the paper terminals and telephone-handset audio-coupled modem connections? We had a choice between 300 and 600 baud rate - but the 600 only worked late at night. Which is when mainframe time was cheaper anyway. Yes, we were allotted a budget to pay for mainframe time. Something like $20 for the semester. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gail in Virginia Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 And I remember learning to flow chart as part of the programming process. Only part of it that I still find helpful, although I don't usually use the different shaped boxes. This thread is reminding me that I need to clean out and throw away somethings that have become useless over time -including old programming discs ( some 5.25, some 3.). I remember my first home computer had a hard drive with something measured in MB, and I thought it was huge and would never run out. Ha! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILLMAS Posted March 31, 2017 Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 Anyone remember the I-Omega Zip disks? 100MB, 250MB & 750MB 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jklcpa Posted March 31, 2017 Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 Zips. Yes, I used them in the transition between 3.5" and CDs because they held a lot more, but they were expensive. Was that during the time when CDs first became writable or able to rewrite them. I threw a bunch of those zips away a few years ago. I think the last XP machine I had, I added that drive on it so to read those zips. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACK BART Posted March 31, 2017 Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 10 hours ago, Abby Normal said: Anyone here remember the old 8" floppy disks. SS SD. I can't remember the capacity. Even I didn't ever use those. On the other hand, I had a Radio Shack TRS-80 that recorded programs on cassette tapes. I used it to write programs in BASIC and composed my own program for income averaging (remember that?) when we were still doing returns by hand. Had some problems though: (1) If I left the computer "on" for more than two hours it would overheat and my calculated figures would go haywire (2) When typing out a program one day, a message popped up on the screen of my little 4K rig which I had never seen before and never expect to see again: "END OF MEMORY." Funny thing, later on when upgrades started coming out by orders of magnitude (16K, 32K, 64K) I remember some guy at a tax seminar who was ridiculing the trend and asked us "What could anyone possibly need with 128K of memory?" 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Posted March 31, 2017 Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 Got rid of my DOS machine a long time ago. Last year, the Win2000 and WinXP went. This year I'm getting a new W10 machine and the W7 goes. The Win8 will be my backup. Getting older, need to clear out the junk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abby Normal Posted March 31, 2017 Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 This is my Drawer o' Technology: It's mostly cables and power cords now, some have never been used. That Hayes Anniversary mode in the upper left has a lot of sentimental value. It sat on your monitor and you could use it as a speaker phone. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberts Posted March 31, 2017 Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 I just purchased a refurbished computer to operate solely as a quote terminal pretty much. i5, 8GM ram and an SSD instead of HD (I'm only doing SSD from now on) and a new power module - $201 delivered. Bought a refurbished laptop to run as a Plex server and bittorrent sync backup location at home - same information and it was $270 with a brand new battery. Using SSD will change your life. If you are buying a new computer - spend the extra $50. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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