Bunker Mulligan "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." ~Mark Twain

March 3, 2005

Using a mouse?

Filed under: General — Bunker @ 5:36 am

Kev has a sad piece which all you DOS-heads will appreciate.

4 Comments

  1. Heh … I remember buying my first PCs (one IBM, one TI) in 1983, and learning all the DOS commands. When the MAC first appeared, I had the chance to play with one in a store – and thought ‘How cute’. Then a few years later I got to work with Excel on a MAC, and realized what all the clamor about Drag and Drop and Mouse based computing was all about 😉

    Comment by Barb — March 3, 2005 @ 10:00 am

  2. DOS is a new invention as far as I’m concerned. I took COBOL [common business oriented langurage] at Trinity U. in 1970. The computer was as big as your house, situated in a specially designed air conditioned room. You communicated with the computer via “punch cards”. After a semester of training the best I could achieve was a program using 100’s of punch cards that when activated printed out a pyramid. My thought at the time was that this computer crap was going now where. I have been proven correct……no wait a minute!

    Comment by Wallace-Midland Texas — March 3, 2005 @ 10:20 am

  3. I learned FORTRAN with punch cards, myself. The dreaded “floor sort” was far worse than the blue screen of death!

    Comment by Bunker — March 3, 2005 @ 2:11 pm

  4. God how I miss DOS, you actually had to know how a computer worked when using DOS or UNIX, the point and click interface has allowed relative moron’s to use a computer. The world is not better off in my view.

    Comment by Bubba Bo Bob Brain — March 3, 2005 @ 7:10 pm

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