[gui-talk] Computer museum?

[Mike Freeman]

I was a TinyTalk screen-reader fan under DOS although I also used JAWS for 
DOS.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Lee" <dgl at dlee.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Computer museum?


> Mike is seriously in danger of getting me to dust off memories of 6502
> Assembly here... and tricks to let one modify the running Apple II+/E
> OS, doing things like reducing how long it took a floppy drive to
> respond to commands, changing the frequency of the system bell, and of
> course, crashing a II/+ hard enough that the Reset button wouldn't
> work anymore.  But I'm not sure what to call my favorite system.  I
> was fond of Telix under DOS for a terminal program, and Artic Business
> Vision for a screen reader in that environment; and I used that setup
> through Windows 98, and I used Windows 98 for some things way past its
> time, as several of my coworkers would attest. :)
>
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 07:37:59PM -0700, Mike Freeman wrote:
> 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"
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>
>
>>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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