Outlooker wrote:And before that - Commodore plus 4/Amstrad CPC
You get an award just for that one in my book.
Even most C-64 owners didn't know what a Plus 4 was. I wanted one until until I realized sprites couldn't be played with. (Like most kids of the Commodore generation, Garry Kitchen's GameMaker convinced me that I was next in line to run Imagic. Obviously that never happened for anyone.)
swarfendor437 wrote:My potted history: Shop Steward and Safety Rep for a TU many years ago - they ran Windows 3.1 - but all you got at boot time was the flashing C:/ DOS Prompt - had to type 'WIN' to boot into Windows! (no autoexec.bat!)
First experience with a batch file was having to write one in computer class in Junior High 25 years ago. I remember the teacher saying "you're going to need this stuff, because no one else is learning it." Back then, even I didn't get it and I was already big on tinkering with computers. Never occurred to me at the time that he really meant it-- that no one else in town was even touching this stuff, and here he was literally handing us the foundations of that design principle that probably made that whole class comfortable with Linux later in life: that the GUI and the OS could be -- and initially were-- separate components.
That and we were also unafraid of a terminal window.
