Comments by "" (@dingokidneys) on "Microsoft Open Sources Another Operating System" video.

  1. I think you win for being the old guy in this comment section. I was only 27 in 1988 and never had seen QDOS. I got to play with an HP3000 in high school in 1978 on which I tried to write a simple game, then got to play with an Apple II running Visicalc in Uni as well as another Unix system (don't know what) for "Programming" in Basic on an honest-to-god teletype. Didn't get my hands on another computer until I was working and got to build analytics spreadsheets on a Fujitsu mainframe. Then a PC turned up at work with an 80286 CPU and a colour display. The boss was amazed that I could make it draw pie charts. He thought we were really at the cutting edge of technology in 1987.
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  2. My second child was born in 1988 when DOS 4.0 came out. I was 27 and working as an accountant with a specialty in IT auditing. Also tech support for the audit team which meant I got to do many installs of DOS and WordStar along with fixing what had been borked and building backup and menuing systems for all the teams machines. Also wrote various utilities in whatever languages I could get from shareware distributors which included Modula/2, Small-C and assembler. Good times.
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