Jadzia, Probably Clever 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 31, 2023
Boost this if you ever had to manage naming your computer files using only eight characters, plus the three character extension.
#eightdotthree
Show threadRiley S. FaelanJan 31, 2023

@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.

Show threadCoprolite9000

@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.)

Feb 1, 2023 at 4:13amWeb
Show threadRiley S. FaelanFeb 1, 2023
@coprolite9000 @Toonces: If you have any parts of it left over, I'd be happy to try to get it to work again.
Show threadJadzia, Probably Clever 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 1, 2023
@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!
Show threadCoprolite9000Feb 1, 2023

@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...)

Show threadCoprolite9000Feb 1, 2023

@riley @Toonces
No idea if that PC-8201 is still around - if it is, its remains are thousands of miles away, alas...

(Tempted to have a look for a replacement on eBay, though!)