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Oh let's have a 40-column screen and Paperclip on a Commodore 64 - now THAT'S modern computing!

And that 300 baud modem, now that was great for bulletin boards such as this was.

OK, ducking now!
Vern

On 5/29/2011 3:45 PM, Scott Klement wrote:

Yeah. MS-DOS 1.0 and Edlin. How archaic.

Imagine us working in an environment like that, where the screen is an
80x24 text-only screen, and everything is done with a single fixed-pitch
font. And imagine us having only very limited color support, 7 colors
and they can't even appear in adjacent columns.

Oh wait... no. MS-DOS was 80x25. And supported 16 colors. And had no
trouble with adjacent columns... I must be thinking of something much
older and more archaic.

Not sure what I was thinking of, but thank goodness none of us uses it.

On 5/29/2011 10:14 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

One can always state that nothing in any vendor's new release justifies
upgrading. Then again, if everyone did so, we'd all be running DOS 1.0 on
our PC's and using edlin as our word processor.

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