Dozens of floppies to install a compiler (Hello Borland C)
VB (note lack of .Net)
Writing a DOS device driver so I could edit config.sys on bootup
Being at a dev conference where the presenter quickly wrote a C# program on the board "Oh, sorry, that's not C#, that's Java", changes the case of a few things "Now it's C#"
Turning on a computer with no storage and have it work (The Vic-20 and C-64 mentioned elsewhere here)
OS/2. Would've flunked college without this, I had neural nets running for weeks and could still write papers.
30+ years of tech, retired from an identity intelligence company, now part-time with an insurance broker.
Dev community mod - mostly light gardening & weeding out spam :)
Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Dozens of floppies to install a compiler (Hello Borland C)
Spending 20+ straight hours in the Sun lab to download Linux from MIT's TSX mirror ...then using rawrite to put it all on a stack of floppies. And, doing all that because the university's Sun lab was connected to NSFnet and its blazing 56Kbps "backbone".
I think I still have my SimEarth floppies somewhere.
I want to see someone join all the games together. Zoom into SimEarth, get SimCity. Zoom into SimCity, get SimTower or SimAnt depending on how built up the area was.
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+1 for DOS device driver authoring, that was always fun:
dev.to/phlashgbg/comment/2okc
Spending 20+ straight hours in the Sun lab to download Linux from MIT's TSX mirror ...then using
rawriteto put it all on a stack of floppies. And, doing all that because the university's Sun lab was connected to NSFnet and its blazing 56Kbps "backbone".My fav game back then, Sim Ant was installed from floppy!
I think I still have my SimEarth floppies somewhere.
I want to see someone join all the games together. Zoom into SimEarth, get SimCity. Zoom into SimCity, get SimTower or SimAnt depending on how built up the area was.