From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:46:45 -0000 (UTC), MasterKarsten wrote:   
      
   > TheThu, 30 Oct 2025 19:03:57 +0000, rbowman wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:44:54 -0500, Slimes wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Any proper greybeards besides me here?   
   >>   
   >> I learned FORTRAN IV in '65. Does that count?   
   >   
   > No that makes you a White Beard Wizard lol I started on the DOS/windows   
   > 3.1 times and I feel old lol   
      
   Well, yeah, the beard is pretty white as is most of the hair on my head.   
   For some strange reason my ponytail isn't.   
      
   My intro to Windows was when I bought a Compaq Concerto:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Concerto   
      
   Compaq came so damn close! It wasn't a bad machine and had Windows for Pen   
   Computing that allowed text entry with a special stylus. iirc it was $1500   
   which wasn't out of line for a laptop in '93. For whatever reason Compaq   
   never pushed it and dropped it after a year or so.   
      
   I'd done quite a bit with CP/M so DOS was more of the same. I worked with   
   industrial controls, embedded systems, and so forth for Windows wasn't   
   high on my priority. A friend jumped on the bandwagon with Windows 1.0 and   
   I was underwhelmed. I'm still just as happy with a TUI for a lot of   
   things.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)