• WashedOver@lemmy.ca
    36·
    10 months ago

    I wish I had this password request when first trying out DOS commands on my first PC. I came across a book of Dos commands and was playing with FDISK. Wiped out the drive in the process. Learned Dos and windows pretty quickly after as it was a computer my mother in law gave us.

    It went from Dos 5 with a shell to Dos 6.22 with Windows 3.11 once I went to the library and learned about them. Yes library, I’m that old.

    • Adub@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      After just figuring out a little BASIC, I learned some DOS commands and thought changing all the file names to something juvenile was funny. It was on our family Tandy PC and it wasn’t well received. My older sister still brings it up. Similar boat since I didn’t back anything up and had to reinstall DOS 3.30. Didn’t do anything as cool as you and update it much further.

      • WashedOver@lemmy.ca
        2·
        10 months ago

        Did you have the tape drive on that thing? When I was younger my friend had one but we had no idea how to load the games up.

        • Adub@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          By the time I learned about tape drives the small local sears had already liquidated everything & I wasn’t smart enough to figure out mail order yet. Also, Later on I just wanted the new stuff for Windows 95 and better games. Wish I had loved that old tech more back then.

    • drugo@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      10 months ago

      You can in /dev at least, I sometimes rename/move /dev/ttyUSB1 to /dev/ttyUSB0 for my 3D printer