From: soulkarsten@gmail.com   
      
   TheFri, 31 Oct 2025 01:34:50 +0000, rbowman wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   What a beautiful and portable machine!   
      
   My introduction to PC was an Aptiva with Windows 95, a decent Pentium 120mhz   
   processor, 1.2GB of Hard Disk and a Wopping 12mb (yeah 12!) or RAM. And a 28.8   
   kbs modem that performed as bad as you can imagine.   
      
      
   --   
   ---/g/ on Usenet? Madness!---   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)