[gui-talk] Computer museum?

[Mike Freeman]

I'm dating myself but my favorite microcomputer operating system was Cp/M. 
One could get in there, change the command processor and/or change/modify 
the BIOs and have a rollicking good time doing so. One could generate some 
horrendous crashs but it was great fun to speed up systems by half or more 
and systems with 64K max separated the efficient programmers from the 
less-so. I had a grand old time in 8080 and Z80 laassembly languages 
(several different flavors) and was perfectly happy with such systems -- I 
had a HP-125 and Telcon Zorba for years.

My favorite program of that era was a terminal program called QTERM written 
by a guy named David Goodenough. I adapted it for several different flavors 
of CP/M systems. I also did the last update of Kermit for CP/M systems.

For larger machines, I *still* like Vax/VMS. Name me a Windows system that's 
been up continuously for well over a year! I can name a Vax/VMS workstation 
that's done exactly that! (grin)

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "chris hallsworth" <christopherh40 at googlemail.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 2:04 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] Computer museum?


> Hello all!
> what was your favourite operating system in the history of computing? Also 
> what about software? My favourite operating system in the history of 
> computing is probably Windows 95 and I was using JAWS as my screen reader. 
> My favourite software was a product by PowerQuest called Second Chance. (I 
> wonder if anyone remembers having that preinstalled on their old 
> machines?) I certainly did and it was brilliant! The program is basically 
> System Restore but for data as well as system. What Second Chance did was 
> created "checkpoints" at regular intervals. You can then restore 
> individual files and folders, or even an entire system, to that particular 
> checkpoint. Checkpoint 1 was always the "initial" checkpoint either after 
> Second Chance was first installed or you have enabled a drive to be 
> monitored after it being disabled. One problem Second Chance did do was 
> corrupt the JAWS authorization keys that were used way back then. You 
> know, the ones that consisted of a special floppy disk? This is because, 
> as I soon found out, a hidden/system file jfw.cps was backed up by Second 
> Chance each time JAWS modified it. So of course when you restored an 
> entire system to an earlier checkpoint you lost authorization in the 
> process. But apart from that it was brilliant! How I wish they'd brought 
> it back to make it work for Windows 7!
>
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