Vista SP1

[Lance]

Which was better than the every 45 minutes with Windows 98! When it shut down properly it was more by luck, I seem to remember!

[Rik]

You youngsters don't know you're born - now Windows 1, that was a real man's OS. 

[Lance]

I'm afraid I only go as far back as Dos 6 and Windows 3.1

[Rik]

Stripling!! 

DOS4 to DOS 5 was a big upgrade - it even came with a manual back then.

[Niall]

You youngsters don't know you're born - now Windows 1, that was a real man's OS. 

Pfft, I didn't use that rubbish. I used DOS!

[Rik]

Ah, but if you wanted to run Ventura, you had to run Windows 1 (run time).

[Malc]

Pfft, I didn't use that rubbish. I used DOS!

Them were the days!

Along with base memory

[Rik]

And QEMM.

[mrapoc]

you all sound like my programming tutor...him and his retro programming days 

lol

we just tell him to go back to his pong! 

[Lance]

My IT teacher used to pong as well! 

[old Bill]

This might be of use. MAKE SURE YO WANT TO KEEP SP1 FIRST.
http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/finish-install-windows-vista-sp1-clean-junk-files/2641/

[madasahatter]

Nice link Bill - sure that will come in handy. I'd be curious to know exactly how much "tons of extra space" is though  8)

[esh]

I missed DOS 4, went straight from 3.3 to 5.0. Surprisingly, my DOS 3.3 disk still works. It comes with GW-BASIC and an ATI EGA video driver that is under 40KB total. I did actually manage to get Windows 3.1 to run on it many years later as an experiment (this was a 12MHz 286), but had to delete all the help files amongst other things to fit it on the hard disk.

[g7pkf]

Belive it or not i still have a pc with dos 6.22 on it (and i still use it 486 dx33 4mb ram 270 MbHdd) i also always have a virtual machine on my laptop with 6.22 on it.

albeit modded with network drivers & software.

pretty fast o/s on a p4 dual core in a vm.

also always have a linux o/s with a lot of network tools loaded in a vm (and on a pc at home as well)

good for hacking stuff 

[Rik]

Anyone fancy a DOS version of the forum? 

[Sebby]

Anyone fancy a DOS version of the forum? 

It would certainly make us more unique than we already are.

[Rik]

Back to ASCII smileys <g>.

[Simon]

Anyone fancy a DOS version of the forum? 

Damn, you've spoiled the April Fool!   

[Rik]

They'll have forgotten by then. 

[scook94]

And QEMM.

hehe I remember QEMM! My PC days started with DOS 3.3, the earliest Windows version (I think) was 2.11, which was pretty much what we know as File Manager in later versions.... Those were the days! Long live EDLIN!

[Rik]

There's a name I'd forgotten.

[Niall]

you all sound like my programming tutor...him and his retro programming days 

lol

we just tell him to go back to his pong! 

Don't knock pong!

http://retrogamescatalog.com/acatalog/Grandstand_Console_Games.html

I spent hours playing on the Grandstand on pong and those tank games

I used to go to a family friends house every week. We'd watch Grandstand followed by (and the reason for watching Grandstand, in case we missed...) BLAKES 7! Then it was tank/pong time!

[madasahatter]

BLAKES 7!

Classic TV - used to love that 

[Niall]

Actually, I think it was question of sport on before Blakes 7

[madasahatter]

Wasn't it Top Of The Pops? - I seem to remember Blakes 7 was on a Thursday night - at some point at least