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What I imagine the computer looks everytime someone says they have been having all sorts of problems with there pc crashing and running slow. Then they say there friend tried a few things that didn't work but should be a quick fix for us. Oh & I need it back this afternoon.

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I dont know if they are still around but I used to see these signs on the highway that read something like "Killing a highway worker can coast you over 8000.oo". Kinda a good deal. Should I ever have a spare 8K floating around I know where I can spend it. :)

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YeOldeStonecat said:
Stuff sure was pretty simple back then though. We deployed 'n supported some dang huge networks back then...and computer problems were fairly simple to fix. I miss those days.
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Yeah it sure was simple back then in the DOS days. I think Windows 3.1 was just about the only thing with a true installer that asked a series of questions (instead of plug and play) to configure the hardware. Really, it just wrote your selections to win.ini and system.ini.

As for DOS, it did the same, too and wrote the config.sys and autoexec.bat. That said, installation of programs was little more than copying them to a directory structure ... Honestly it was about as simple as using the XCOPY command with /s and /e to copy sub-directories even if empty. An install of an OS had little more to do than copy the files over to a formatted hard drive though I think you were supposed to format /s if I recall correctly to have it place the system files for you.

The DOS installer more or less copied a bunch of programs to a directory called DOS off the root of C: and set the PATH statement in autoexec.bat (if I recall correctly) to reflect that directory.

Installing something like a CD-ROM drive was a matter of setting the right jump (remember those???), shutting down the computer and connecting the ribbon cable (middle if slave otherwise end if master even though there was no cable select)... Then you would copy the files from a floppy to the hard disk in a directory and edit your config.sys to set a device= statement or maybe devicehigh=... and somewhere on that line, you would give it a name. Something like DEVICE=OAKCDROM.SYS /D:name. Then in Autoexec.bat you would add a line to call the MSCDEX.exe and specify the name. I think this is what created the drive letter, but I am not certain. Either way it required a reboot.

Audio was NOT much more work... It was really the same methodology to set that up though I think you needed to know the interrupt it was on in one of the arguments. Hence, back then you had real documentation on paper!

Those systems were so simple. If you wanted to clone a whole system, you could probably just XCOPY the whole darned hard drive provided the hardware and software was the same.
 
Not my license plates, but you have to wonder if the DMZ even bothers to read the plates they make before sending them out. I would surely be sending these back in for new ones. IMG_0687.JPG
 
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