[gui-talk] Computer museum?

Thu Sep 2 12:21:58 UTC 2010

I had articvision for my screenreader.  On the second computer I got from 
the Commission, which I didn't get to keep because I didn't get a job, they 
gave me Vocal Eyes, but I only got to use that for about six months, so 
after using Artic for so long, during my first job and all, it was hard to 
get used to Vocal Eyes.  I took the first computer home and had it and used 
it until 2008.  I took it to the place where I volunteered and used it to 
write the log.  When I left there, I gave it to somebody who wanted it so 
she could use the wp5.1 that was in it.  Pam.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Lee" <dgl at dlee.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 11:20 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"
> <christopherh40 at googlemail.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 2:04 PM
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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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