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Dot matrix printer go EEEEEEEN-futfutfut-EEEEEEEEN-futfutfut... (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago (6 children)

C:\>type autoexec.bat
@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $P$G
PATH C:\DOS;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM;
SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
REM -- HDD cache:
SMARTDRV.EXE 2038 512
MODE.EXE LPT1:,,P >NUL
SHARE.EXE /F:150 /L:1500
MOUSE.COM /Y
DEVICE=C:\sb16\DRV\CTSB16.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220 I:5 D:1
DEVICE=C:\sb16\DRV\CTMMSYS.SYS
CD \WINDOWS
WIN

And don't forget to set the jumpers correctly!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You forgot to load EMM386 or even HIMEM.SYS! You might as well not even bothered installing that expensive 4MB SIMM stick for all the use you're gonna get out of it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That's done in config.sys, not autoexec autoexec.bat IIRC

Also anyone remember that joke?

;fastest mouse driver available
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRV\CAT.SYS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I was more a QEMM kind of guy. Also, multitasking Windows in DOS, using Deskview.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Oh man the memories this brings back. I remember being sat down in front of a 386 by my dad when I was ~6 years old. I asked him how to use the mouse, he gave me an instruction manual and told me to figure it out.

We often criticize boomer dads but they were right about this point: kids have unlimited curiosity, feed it.

My daughter recently turned 6 years old. She saw a game called Wobbledogs and wanted to play it. I sat her in front of an old PC and told her to figure it out. She spent a few hours playing last night and narrated the entire experience to me lol. Glad she is enjoying herself. Even if this doesn't set off a lifetime of experience in IT she will develop some problem solving skills, and if nothing else she is learning something useful as opposed to being handed a tablet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not only was I somehow given the card to upgrade my Apple IIe to 128k in the 80s when I was elementary school age, my parents trusted me to install it because they didn't know how. And I did!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That could have gone so horribly wrong lol. It's like the times my dad asked me to set jumpers for anything, I think he was more spooked than I was but he let me do it anyway. Every badly set jumper is a learning opportunity I guess lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

??? The DEVICE= lines go in the config.sys file.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

What, no mscdex.exe?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

So happy to feel the other old people here.