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...you read an explanation like this in a BBC news item:
 

Disk operating system computers were popular in the 1980s and early 1990s.

 

And the system remained in widespread use up to around the turn of the century

 

Not MSDOS computers please note.  Maybe I will be around long enough to read this:

 

The British Broadcasting Corporation was popular until around the turn of the century.

 

Declining journalistic standards, a terminal left-wing liberal bias, wet-behind-the-ears intake, and the continual promotion of an American mega-corporation's vastly overpriced technology over the superior technology used by more than 80% of their audiences, ensured its total demise early in the new century.

 

Just kidding! ;)

 

Has anyone seen anything in print which made them seem old?

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Mmmmmm - memories - your post makes me think back and feel just as old as I felt yesterday.

1975 - ICL 1900s - fixed discs - can't remeber if they were FD80s or 800s

1980 - ICL 2900 - Exchangeable Discs - EDS200s

My first PC - 1995 - ICL M40 - YES an amazing 40 Mb of store - cost £1,400+! = Lemmings - Kings Quest; Space Quest - Blox etc. No mouse, everything moved via the keyboard.

Can't find that article you read on Disk Operating systems.

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LOL I rather hoped that someone would steer the thread away from computer talk!

 

It's in the article about The Game of Thrones guy.  He doesn't like spelling correctors, and still uses Wordstar on an old disk operating system (sic) machine, apparently.  I'd have imagined someone would have ported it to 'doze, or there are emulators which can run the old Wordstar codebase at many times the speed.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27407502

 

Anyway, has anyone seen my flares?  This retro thing could easily catch on.

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Yup, you could have bet money on it! :)

 

 

I wonder what a current generation BBC journo would make of CP/M?

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You know you are old when... your jaw drops watching this: 

 

...or... when it's hard to remember how we used to send our text messages. :rofl:

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