Archive for June, 1999

Online Before the WWW

My enthusiasm for home computing was fueled by my scientific and creative curiosity. I wanted to know how it all worked and how I could make it better, from booting DOS to running programs. I knew what every line in my config.sys and autoexec.bat files did, why they were there, and what effect changing […]

Originally published by BrokenClaw on Jun 10, 1999 | Contact Me
Categories: Internet Explained, My Computing, Tech Comment

Home Computing Before Windows

My first exposure to a desktop computer came in 1988 when our office got an IBM PS/2. To someone used to running business software at a workstation, it was not very impressive. We had two programs on it: our vendor’s product list and a word processor, which wasn’t much more than a text […]

Originally published by BrokenClaw on Jun 7, 1999 | Contact Me
Categories: My Computing, Software, Tech Comment