10 years of windoze turned brain to mush!
 

After pointing & clicking and dragging & dropping without thinking in windoze for so long, it feels good to be doing stuff at the command line and having to think before doing things in linux.
I used to be a hard-core DOS user back in the 80s and even when windoze came out I still used dos for a few years cuz I could do everything faster.
But being in windoze for over 10 years now, I have gotten used to just pointing & clicking away without thinking.
I finally got to realizing this today after a couple of weeks on linux now.

Hopefully will graduate from linux noob soon and have a 100% linux machine.

Just had to say this, in case any of you thought I was a complete idiot.

Hehehe, well i wasn't even born until 87' but i am getting to like the command line...In Linux the command can do SO MUCH more than in windows its not even funny.

guess I'm old!!
 

bought my first IBM PC in 1985. I think it had 64k RAM, 2 5.25" drives, no hard disk. Cost over $3000.

i never knew you could get 8" floppy disks once upon a time... 150kbish i think... funny funny. British Science Museum rocks! esp as i got a printout from the last workign Pegasus computer in existence...

Had a machine with 5.25 floppys in my office in York, can't remember what it was, but it telnetted into the national poisons service, and dumped the data to a dot matrix printer. Undoubtedly from only a few years ago though.
Jim

Computers are getting so high tech so quickly. I mean look at other inventions like cars for example that came out in the late late 19th century, sure they have gotten more futuristic and more powerful and better fuel economy, but they are still cars, that get you from point A to point B.

Take a look at computers which came out in the 1980's (x86 pc's), they had no hard disk, and where operating at 8mhz, they didn't even need a heatsink!.

Now we have so much more and it has been only like 20 years. In the next 10 years i bet we'll have games photo realistic...which is the ULTIMATE goal.

we got our first computer an, apple performa about 80-100 mhz when I was 8 years old. So someday when I'm 70 i'll be able to say that when I was a kid we didn't have a computer.

Apple/Claris works are better than MS Word.

If so then how would you rate/compare StarOffice 5.1 in there?

Re: 10 years of windoze turned brain to mush!
 

pekuekfir,

I know what you mean. I breadboarded (and programmed) an 8080-based system in college, and my first home box was an 8088. I stuck with DOS for a long time after that, because DOS apps were small, tight, and fast, and the command line just seemed like home to me. No wonder I love Linux so much, it's all of that and much more!
Don't worry, you'll have a 100% Linux box before you know it. Computers are pretty cheap, so do what I did at first: get a used or lower-end box and make it your Linux-only laboratory. Just keep your Win box around so you'll have something to get online with when you hose your Linux install and you need to post questions here.
:D


BTW- bluecadet,

8" floppies- yup! Bernoulli drives. One brand of high-end sound recording console I worked with in the early 90's (SSL, for anyone in the biz) was still using them as both the boot and data-storage media for their automation sub-system. Scary beasties, those.

The first computer I used was a 'BBC Model B' - the ones with 32K RAM (which I've still got. The games on it were superb). Although the Speccy was the most popular computer around at the time, my parents thought that it'd be much more beneficial if I used the same type of computer @ home as they were using in my school. I was four. The first PC I used was a 386sx 25MHz with 8Mb RAM. Was soon vamped up to a whacking 16Mb! The first PC I bought, however, was a lowly Pentium 90 (I think I've still got the mobo somewhere), followed by a PII-333 (now that was a mistake! Slot 1's are a nightmare to buy now), and now I'm on a 1.4GHz.

Wow. I must definetely agree with you Therion. In only 18 years things have gone from 8MHz (or was it 12) to 2000MHz+.

Was reading something on the net about Seymour Cray and the first supercomputers, I think the cray 1 was 1978. Had 8Mb main memory, which is about what the average phone has now.

the old days
 

I was a former programmer/operator for the IBM System 34/System 36 "mini computer" - mini meaning about 4 1/2 feet tall and about 6 feet long back in 1982. My System 34 had 64k memory, and we upgraded it to a whopping 64Mb hard drive (a 6-platter unit about a foot tall) the disk platters were around 12 inches across (like the vinyl LPs). And it used 8" floppies for backups. Back then "floppy" really meant floppy!

Our first good computer at work was a deskpro 486 / 33 EISA we thought it was the greatest thing because it had an ungodly amount of ram. 8 MB

my first home one was a laptop, compaq aero 486/33

It was free.

I am not too old, but I remember my families first computer was only a few years ago. It was a Compaq Presario, like 333Mhz speed. Now I have a custom built thing running at1.4 Ghz with 512 MB RAM. Seems strange.

Probably the oddest thing is that when I graduated from high school, Windows 95 was not even out yet. I passed in 1993. Now that makes me feel a little old.

I remember when my parents got a 386. I had a Color monitor which put me above my black and green friends :) It had 1 MB of ram which needed to be upgraded to 4 MB when we got Windows 3.1.

I bought a 133 P1 and it is still in use as my parents "new" computer. The 386 has since been "retired" and is going to be scavenged for parts sometime in the near future.