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cm0002@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“it’s now safe to turn off your computer”
That’s how old I am
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Fuck
And the power switch was like KA-JUNK when you pushed it, because it was a big ol’ switch that actually physically connected and disconnected the power.
“It’s now safe to turn off your computer” went away after we moved to software power control, where the operating system could signal the power supply to turn off.
I had my computer plugged into a power bar and we’d turn off the power bar to turn off the computer so that we wouldn’t wear out the switch on the computer.
People actually thought you’d have a computer long enough to wear out its power switch.
I knew far, far too many people in HS that just hit the power button without actually shutting it down.
I had to type “/win” to boot up Windows
Into what did you type that? Wouldn’t something already have to have booted first in order to type it?
Dos, windows was just a normal dos program you had to start like anything else until windows 95
And when Win95 booted, you exited into the DOS prompt, the true gaming environment at the time.
Oh gawd, there are people that don’t know DOS.
FACK…
I know about DOS if that helps? I’m not too far off from having used it though, I bet. I’m 38.
This PC booted up in DOS
MS-DOS
I assume MS-DOS.
The one I remember best was having to use the DOS ‘park’ command before you shut down the PC. I guess I am that old.
Huh, never ever seen that. We always used the rule "yoi can shutdown the computer when you can see the C:".
What does park do? Put the HDD arm into a parked position? Never needed that for ours, but we also had a blazingly fast 486 with a massive 250 MB hdd.
Yeah, old drives didn’t autopark like the IDE drive in your spiffy 486. I had an XT growing up, and dad was militant about having us remember to park the drive when we were done with it. I think by the end of the 80s, all drives were IDE and were autoparking, so the command was deprecated.
Damn, I had a Tandy 1000HX (very much not a 486) and never had to do that.
I never had to do that, because our computer didn’t have a hard drive. We booted DOS right from the floppy.
I’m right there with ya. Don’t forget to make sure you set the interleaving correctly on your Winchester drive!
Yup. Thankfully that “feature” went away real quick and it became automatic.
I feel you man. Very nostalgic!
Is that Windows 95?
95/98 and ME/XP to a far lesser extent but it was 98 for me lol
The ole AT power supply standard. Nice.
boughtmysoul@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I had a friend who edited the .jpeg or whatever in the shutdown sequence to say “it is NOT safe to shut off your computer” and waited for his family to freak out.