Simple Pleasures

Monday, May 12, 2008

You've Been Hanging around With Computers for So Long when....

Who amongst you have ever used a 5 1/4" floppy drive in school? I have used both low density and high density floppy disks. I even lock them by sticking a black sticker on the right hand side to prevent it from getting a virus.

I used to do some basic programming, word processing using Wordstar and spreadsheets using Lotus 1-2-3.

Back then, you have to know the commands to go around with MS-DOS. There was no Windows XP nor Vista. Windows 3.1 was just emerging and it definitely wowed me when I learned how to play solitaire with a mouse.

There was also a time when I used microprocessors to access my email and chat programs. Internet usage used to be text based using Lynx programs. Multi-user dungeons were the MMPORG games of today. Only it is command-line based gaming which requires a good pair of eyes, fast typing skills and a vivid imagination.

Monitors back then were either gray or green. If you manage to have colored monitor, sikat ka na. You can play pacman, Digdug, centiped and alleycat on those 386x machines when you are bored.

You would know when you have been hanging around with computers long enough when you tell all these stories and they would say "I never experienced those kind of things".

Celebrated by monicai at 3:41 PM