Jadzia, Probably Clever π³οΈββ§οΈBoost this if you ever had to manage naming your computer files using only eight characters, plus the three character extension.
#eightdotthree
#eightdotthree
Jenn Dolari@Toonces - One of the things I noticed when updating my website was how many of my files were in 8.3 format, mainly because one of my fans was using Mac OS 8, and long filenames would break the links when burned to CD.
@dolari hah, wow! That's dedication!
Aaron Mills 
@Toonces
Yup.
Also had to deal with C:\PROGRA~1\
Angie B@Cloudhunter @Toonces I was dealing with that sort of thing in my code last year :/
Vaguely here π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβπ@Toonces Show off, why don't you, with your fancy 8.3 filenames.
Some of us started on 7 characters. Course, back then, all this was hand coded in 6502 assembler. And I had to write the bits to the tape by hand using a magnet.
*Grins*
Seth Rutledge@Toonces Bonus points if you ever had to make a new directory because you had more than 128 files and the system couldn't handle it.
@eldritch48 oh yeah! I remember that!
Timothy Howard@Toonces Indeed. #eightdotthree with CP/M on a S-100 bus.
Son of a Sailor
Stone Bear 
J. Brian Coyle@JBrianCoyle @Toonces :bat: :bat: :bat: C: for me; it was a lappy and no D: drive, but yeah. All the handy little scripts that weren't system...
Derek π
mjfgates
Simon Brooke@Toonces ten characters, no extension.
https://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/docs/Acorn/Manuals/Acorn_ADFSUG.pdf
David Mooney@Toonces I started on six dot three.
Juha Haataja
Mike Mol@Toonces without directories, even!
Emily S@Toonces ah files. Those were a nice upgrade π€£
El Diablo Roboc ππ€@Toonces You were lucky to have filenames ! We had to memorize pointers and store our files in cardboard boxes.
four_yorkshire_gentlemen_v2.mp4
πΊπ¦ haxadecimal π«π@Toonces 8.3? Luxury! On the DECsystem-10, we has only SIX characters for the filename, plus the three character extension.
WGAvanDijk@Toonces
I was a specialist in AUTOEXEC.BAT
I was a specialist in AUTOEXEC.BAT
ScottinSoCal πΊπ¦ π π³βπ@WGAvanDijk @Toonces
HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE
Had to love that config.sys file, it's how you got access to RAM higher than 640K
@ScottSoCal @Toonces
Yes, nice!
Extended memory.
One day, I also got some expanded memory. I have over 1 Mb of memory!!! Woohoo.
@ScottSoCal @Toonces
Hahaha, well, now I have this 8-core laptop now, 32Gb memory, with 3 SSD's in it (4Tb, 2Tb, 1Tb SSD). Monster!
But I still love my first Tandon Ad-Pac 80286 with 2 30Mb ejectable harddisks (bricks!) of 1988.
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)@Toonces And only upper case too. Permissions, what permissions?! Ownership? You're kidding right?! Ohh the horror!
Tim Ward βπͺπΊπΆ #FBPE@Toonces Wrote a filing system once in which we considered this unnecessarily restrictive ... so we allowed eight characters in the extension.
@TimWardCam flawless solution! ππ
davidvedvick@Toonces IREMEMB~. TXT
sΝ§bΝ«Μ΄ΖΈΜ΄gΝ¬α΅@Toonces In the 80:s we shared a ABC-80 at the Young Scientists club, so anyone not using it had to rename their files from .BAS to their initials - hence my nickname βSBGβ. Glory days.
mesanford@Toonces It was a total nightmare but those stopgap measures where the file name had -both- the DOS 8.3 -and- an extended Windows file name were worse.
Tofu Golem@Toonces
I started doing that in TRS-DOS on school computers.
I started doing that in TRS-DOS on school computers.
djohngo@Toonces I still feel like I'm committing a sin if I do otherwise.
Ada
AMS@Toonces Those were the days. Not as hard when you only had 360kB of space to worry about though.
Merlin.2160p.BDRip.x265.10bit@Toonces Had to? Sadly this still is reality with Samba shares πͺ
Darren@Toonces I still remember a coworker, telling me that they had let their daughter draw a picture in windows paint. She tried to save it as βLucy in the garden with flowersβ and then burst into tears when she hit the eight character limit
Paul Bowsher
Riley S. Faelan@Toonces: You know that RT-11 & derivates used to limit filenames to 6.3, right?
And in the microrevolution era, there was even a machine, TRS-80 Model 100, with 6.2 names, so Wikipedia's photo of it used to proudly display a document named wikipe.do.
Coprolite9000@riley @Toonces
My dad once found a thoroughly obsolete Model 100 (in its NEC PC-8201 guise) in a cupboard at work - and took it home for me to play with. I was just thinking of its 6.2 filenames!
(I had access to way more powerful computers, but it was nicely portable and had a limited but capable BASIC - so I used it to program tiny games on. It died some years ago after a mix-up with power supplies, which I'm still annoyed with myself about. Grr.)
@coprolite9000 @Toonces: If you have any parts of it left over, I'd be happy to try to get it to work again.
@riley @coprolite9000 my first computer, if I remember right, was a Gateway 2000 486sx with 2 MB of RAM and a 128 MB hard drive that I got in early 1994. That old thing is long gone, but amazingly it lasted me all through five years of undergrad!
@Toonces @riley
2MB RAM? A hard disk? Luxury!
(First family computer for me was an Atari ST, in 1988. I kept it going into the internet age, albeit with 4MB of RAM and a 230MB hard disk by then - eventually replaced it with a half-decent PC. It's still stuffed in a cupboard somewhere - no idea if it still works. I did image the hard disk ages ago, for running in an emulator...)
rag. Gustavino BevilacquaAnd case-insensitive!
Richard Emling (DO9RE)@Toonces got my 1st computer in 1994, a 486 with DOS 6.22.
DJGummikuh@Toonces God I remember first time seeing Linux back then and being totally amazed at how it neither had the dotthree NOR the eight limitation π€£
Now at @@Toonces Only while I was using an IBM compatible. On my Amiga, and before that my C64, it wasn't an issue. Ditto for the early Macs I used. It wasn't an issue for Acorn Archimedes machines either, except their had an unusual convention where all executables began with an exclamation mark.
Barijaona Ramaholimihaso@ajsadauskas @Toonces On the other hand, on earlier Macs (MFS file system), folders were visual tools for storage but were not real directories. On a single volume, using the same filename for two files in distinct folders was NOT possible.
Bink
Keira Incognita 
@Toonces And backed up on 1.44MB floppy disks.
cohomology is FUN!@Toonces @keira_incognita I still have a few floating around my home office. Still have a USB floppy drive too!
@cohomologyisFUN @Toonces Yeah, I still have a box of old floppies. Some 100MB ZIP disks too.
@keira_incognita @Toonces not joking, I found some 120 MB SuperDisks *in their original shrink wrap* while cleaning the other day, along with a drive for an ancient Mac laptop that my wife used to use. I'm guessing she used these in college, around the turn of the century.
Wolpertinger Rescue@Toonces hehe! Old cnc machine π
Dan Hugo (ι¨ζδΈΉ)(ΰΉΰΈΰΈ)