Subj : the good old daze
To   : All
From : George Pope
Date : Mon Apr 12 2021 22:34:27

I only have one thing to say:

& it's my tech support company motto:

DOS IST GUT!!! 

I loved it, & could get it to do pretty much anything the latest version of
Windows could do. . .

Too lazy to re-hook up my IBM 486 PS/2 with DOS 6.22 & 100K+ humour(puns
jokes, stories, etc) text files 

& no room in my work area now; in my old bachelor place, I had it in front of
me on my 6' wide table, & a Pentium running the latest Windows & unlimited
internet on the other side, so I could work both at once.

I was dialing into dozens of BBSes all over North America up uintil the BBS
world died with Y2K when everyone bought new Pentiums, c/w WinModems & an
internet CD(AO-Hell, Compu-Slurp) & everyoe just disappeared off the BBS 
scene *sigh*  This one's still up & running, but no regular callers any more
*sigh*

I had a good deal with my telco on my DOS dialup line, $30/month for 
unlimited long distance in N.America -- I ran up over 6,000 minute/month
including chatting by voice with my e-GFs. . .

My itemized phone bill had tobe mailed in a flat envelope (10+ pages of calls
listed under "included with plan $0.00")

Ahh, DOS, I miss thee, surely. . .

I fear it's gone forever. One day I'll need to run underr Linux Ubutu's CLI 
to bring back the feel of being in command of the details again. . . (i.e. 
the exact opopsite of what Windows wants you to be doing)

Anyone else miss DOS?  Tell me your stories. :) 




Your friend,

<+]:{)}
Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM
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