“it’s now safe to turn off your computer”
That’s how old I am
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Fuck
And the power switch was like KA-JUNK when you pushed it, because it was a big ol’ switch that actually physically connected and disconnected the power.
“It’s now safe to turn off your computer” went away after we moved to software power control, where the operating system could signal the power supply to turn off.
I had my computer plugged into a power bar and we’d turn off the power bar to turn off the computer so that we wouldn’t wear out the switch on the computer.
People actually thought you’d have a computer long enough to wear out its power switch.
I knew far, far too many people in HS that just hit the power button without actually shutting it down.
I had to type “/win” to boot up Windows
Into what did you type that? Wouldn’t something already have to have booted first in order to type it?
Dos, windows was just a normal dos program you had to start like anything else until windows 95
And when Win95 booted, you exited into the DOS prompt, the true gaming environment at the time.
This PC booted up in DOS
I assume MS-DOS.
MS-DOS
Oh gawd, there are people that don’t know DOS.
FACK…
I know about DOS if that helps? I’m not too far off from having used it though, I bet. I’m 38.
Yeah you have no excuse
The one I remember best was having to use the DOS ‘park’ command before you shut down the PC. I guess I am that old.
Huh, never ever seen that. We always used the rule "yoi can shutdown the computer when you can see the C:".
What does park do? Put the HDD arm into a parked position? Never needed that for ours, but we also had a blazingly fast 486 with a massive 250 MB hdd.
Yeah, old drives didn’t autopark like the IDE drive in your spiffy 486. I had an XT growing up, and dad was militant about having us remember to park the drive when we were done with it. I think by the end of the 80s, all drives were IDE and were autoparking, so the command was deprecated.
Yup. Thankfully that “feature” went away real quick and it became automatic.
I’m right there with ya. Don’t forget to make sure you set the interleaving correctly on your Winchester drive!
Is that Windows 95?
95/98 and ME/XP to a far lesser extent but it was 98 for me lol
Any Windows machine that does not support ACPI or has it disabled. IIRC Windows has required ACPI since Vista.
I feel you man. Very nostalgic!
The ole AT power supply standard. Nice.
I was going to say!
The OP was using the fancy new icons…
Entertainment packs 1-4. Chips Challenge, SkiFree, Rodent’s Revenge
Oh man, I found chip’s challenge again a few years back (it took forever because I couldn’t remember the name) but I totally forgot about rodent’s revenge!
You can install and run v3.1 in DosBox. In case anyone wanted to keep using it.
Win7 isn’t that old.
People born when Windows 7 was released can get a driver’s license in many parts of the world
Fuck I’m old.
I mean, I’m in my early 40s and I’ve started with ms-dos. According to this meme what am I? A fucking dinosaur? Am I that old?
In my early 30’s. Started with W95. But did dabble in dos sometimes
Same, but then you severely undersold how old you are. Like, where’s the Space Cadet, at least?
I remember playing a hotseat game with my friend and his brothers ( I think heroes of might and magic 2) and I accidentally big toed the power button, just like in this picture 😅
Everyone was pretty gutted, although we then found out that autosave happened every turn, what a releif.
Nah, old(er) people would boot directly to a BASIC editor.
I’m in my late 20s and started with ms-dos too. And even tried OS/2 to check I wasn’t missing something before upgrading to 3.1 then XP 😂
We were born in the 80s. But people around me that are younger like to say I was born in the 1900s to make me feel extra special
mine
Shit, I’m old…
If you stare at it long enough the clouds start to move a little
God, same. I’m actually using that currently on my laptop.
What’s all this newfangled content being posted as old? My first computer had Windows 3.11 that you booted to from a command prompt. It was an amazing graphical upgrade from the command line computers. Now you could actually see what you were doing on the screen instead of typing commands and hoping a document would print with your data.
Before that, I used Apple IIe computers at school, with their solidly green command line interface. I remember being taught how to program instructions with those computers. You had a “turtle” (green triangle) that you needed to move to a specific spot on the screen, and you typed in commands to make him move.
Whatever content is in this meme, it all released long after I grew up and became an adult. You young whippersnappers.
Millennials are now “old” by internet standards, so Gen X and older are positively ancient.
I’m an elder Millennial, and I remember when we got old enough to use the 386 machines at school. Before that we were using DOS.
Our first home computer was bought second hand and didn’t even have a hard drive, just two 5.25" floppy drives, and also ran DOS. We’d have kids from the entire neighborhood visit to play games on it, because although it was second hand it was also very rare to have one.
I was 12 when Windows 95 came out. All this stuff looks waay newer than that. I’d say this draws the line for old at the older part of Gen Z. Millennials aren’t even on the scale.
Ok, boomer
I’m this old:
LOAD"*",8,1 SEARCHING FOR * LOADING READY. RUNWe had multiple games on our floppies. All pirated and with miles of paper printouts showing which games were on which floppy.
I think we had two legitimately bought games.
I still remember using Windows machine for the first time after only having a Commodore 64 and Nintendos. I specifically remember thinking it was dumb because it didn’t have a cartridge slot.
Haha! Now USB ports are sort of cartridge ports. Although I haven’t see a lot of software distributed on USB, there are some products.
We actually had a C 128. But we always booted into C 64 mode because that had all the good games.
The only 128 game we had was some super complicated stealth bomber flight simulator. The manual was cool though.
I am Reversi Hearts Freecell Solitaire Minesweeper 3d pinball for windows old.
I am “write your own shit in GWBASIC” old.
How dare you leave out SkiFree!
That damn yeti was scary af. Every game was pure anxiety.
Did you know you can press “f” to go faster and outrun the Yeti?
I continue to be this old.
Let’s be real - we always assumed that we could hear our parents walking in but there’s no way they didn’t sneak up and check what we were watching once in a while
I still use Winrar.
7zip is better.
Unironically, 7zip is the best. It’s widely available, open source, and… Multithreaded. Really helps when I need to compress a few hundred gigs of experimental data at the 24 core workstation.
I use that too, on a different computer.
I need someone do this with XP
XP was my last windows before I switched to Linux btw
Sounds like a very sane choice!
I use Ubuntu ever since 🤓 but don’t tell the arch nerds
