Earlier this year Microsoft discontinued licensing MS-DOS (finally!). Let’s see: MS-DOS 1.0 came out in 1981 and now it’s 2005. 24 years for an operating system isn’t bad! Yet even after the pulling of support for MS-DOS it still is very much with us. I use a MS-DOS network bootdisk every day at work to [...]
Archives for September 2005
To err is human…
Back in August of 1998 on a Friday night in a little Best Buy store I got my first work order. It was to install a ZIP drive into an IBM Aptiva. Having played with computers as a hobby I thought this was going to be a snap. I attempt to open the case and [...]
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