Windows Technical Preview Installation Problem Legacy BIOS+MBR

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  1. ChaserLee

    ChaserLee MDL Senior Member

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    Now that I think of it, I believe you to be correct. It's been, after all, many years ago since they were in popular use.

    I do remember a little trick I learned about them that I was fond of using. You might remember this yourself? If you notched one corner of the paper case the floppy was encased in, you could use it as a double sided disk. You ever do that?
     
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  2. PaulDesmond

    PaulDesmond MDL Magnet

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    exactly only 51/4 " discs were out. My first DOS came on them many years ago together with a nice rig. It was a 80486 machine with 33 MHz cpu speed and a lot of ram, guess it were 16 MB. Windows 3.11 cam on several 3,5" discs and it took couple of hours to install both DOS and after it windows
     
  3. TONSCHUH

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    My first PC was one of this "overclocked" DX2-66MHz ones. Rofl.

    :)
     
  4. pisthai

    pisthai Imperfect Human

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    First Floppy Disk were 8", used on Mainframe Server systems! 5¼" were just the second, in first batch was one side 180kB followed by the 360KB and further the 1,2MB Disk's! Next were the 3.5", first one side 720kB, second two side 1.44MB and third 2 side 2.88MB!

    Threre was although some bit tricky work with the low capacity 5¼" and 3.5" while cutting some extra hole to get it in double capacity. A lot fun at that time!!
     
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  5. pisthai

    pisthai Imperfect Human

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    That was the time as still Cyrix CPU's were available. Those could be manually overclocked if extra cooling of that CPU was used. Cooling Fans for CPU were coming shortly after that time! That time could be considered as the Stoneage of Computer!
     
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  6. TONSCHUH

    TONSCHUH MDL Addicted

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    Yeah, Cyrix and the "Turbo"-Button.

    The good old times where a 16MB-RAM-Upgrade could reduce your loading times between Game-Levels from 30min to maybe 15min, but you had to put your kidney on lay-by, because the RAM was so "cheap".

    :biggrin:
     
  7. PaulDesmond

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    #207 PaulDesmond, Oct 16, 2014
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    you're right but I only talk about PCs and not big servers or such. If we went back further there were big tape recorders and even more back there were those paper cards with little holes cut out for a reading machine. At that time, I was about 14, I learned assembler programming and some stuff around. It was in 1969 when they allegedly went to the moon :D
     
  8. murphy78

    murphy78 MDL DISM Enthusiast

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    You got a couple decades on me. I didn't start until they had 5 1/4 floppies.
    I remember getting some "basicA" games that my mom brought home from work and being all excited.
    I had perfectly good toys, but computers were always so special to me.
     
  9. pisthai

    pisthai Imperfect Human

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    Yes tapes with an capacity of 256kB!!!!

    But I was talking about "Floppy" Disk and there the first was the 8", mainly used on Servers. We had 1 8" disk drive which se had connected to an 8088 (a Pre-XT Machine) computer used for write the programs for the server. Those 8088 although used PROM and later E-PROM Chips for the internal applications which were much faster than to read them every time from Floppies! Until about 3 years ago, I still was using E-PROM's for Boot-Rom programming of Storage-less Workstations and even some older CNC Machines. End of the last year I'd sold those old Programming Tools (Rom, PROM & E-PROM writers and Erasers and the last 2 8088 machines with 64kB Memory and 256kB Programmed PROMS on board to Russia!

    That's all a long time ago in the Sixties and Seventies.
     
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  10. PaulDesmond

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  11. Carlos Detweiller

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    #213 Carlos Detweiller, Oct 16, 2014
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    First program?

    Code:
    10 CLS
    20 PRINT "Hello World!"
    30 GOTO 20
    BASIC ruled!
     
  13. ChaserLee

    ChaserLee MDL Senior Member

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    Hahahahah, a screen first cleared, then filled in an endless loop with Hello World. I swear, the old days were something else...

    How did this thread get so off topic? And I felt a little guilty when I suggested using a VM program to use Win10. Now it's morphed into a "Good 'Ole Day Society". :blowup:

    Chaser
     
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  14. PaulDesmond

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    someone asked for a machine with DOS and I simply provided that file ....
    ... knowing that it will go a little bit that way but no that much ... but it is fun anyway :D
     
  15. ChaserLee

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    Oh, don't get me wrong, I totally concur !! Threads morph all the time.....

    Chaser
     
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    lol that's how long it's been. can't even remember the size.
     
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    the old days. dos, bbs's, dot matrix printers, ordering new chips through the mail. first computer, used IBMPcJr.
     
  18. Carlos Detweiller

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    Actually, that was even before DOS. I'm sure some will remember CP/M.

    I guess now we have derailed that topic enough.
     
  19. pisthai

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    Around 73/74 if I'm not wrong while Gary Kindall introduced CP/M by IBM! That were later extended to CP/M-80 for to run on the x86, special the Intel 8086 and 8088 CPU's. That OS were totally load into the Memory and run on 8bit!

    MS-DOS came on the end of the '70s from Microsoft followed by PC-DOS from IBM in 1980/81. In November 1985 the first release of Windows as an 16bit Multitasking OS came to life!

    Just a bit of the Stone age history of computer Operating Systems!
     
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