AUTOEXEC . BAT

(Edit: cartoon by Adam Koford)

@Natasha_Jay I love this a lot   😂 
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AUTOEXEC.BAT?!
Tell me how old you are without telling me how old you are 🤪
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Another oldie could be startup.cmd
(My Ms-Dos 3 manual confused both, despite of startup.cmd being OS/2 specific).

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“Have you seen our state of the art latest superhero multi million dollar automobile with all the bells and whistles. HooBoy! You gotta test drive this baby! And it ships straight from the factory with Tru Coat and I can knock $100 off.”

“$100? Here ya are wasting my time and my wife’s time. You’re a liar Mr. Musk. A goddamn liar.”

@Natasha_Jay Should he be robotic or maybe a cyborg? Where's the "auto" part?
@Natasha_Jay This has just won the Internet for today!
@Natasha_Jay Cool, but very 80's/90's... I'd be interested to know how many, er, *younger* members of our community know what AUTOEXEC.BAT is and what it was for. Maybe do one for config.sys now?
@Natasha_Jay Might not hurt to give Adam Koford the attribution, when posting his work. https://boingboing.net/2017/01/02/autoexec-bat-the-tee-shirt.html
Autoexec.bat: the tee-shirt

Adam "Ape Lad" Koford writes, "Last Wednesday night as I was falling asleep, an idea came to me. The next morning I drew it and posted it online, not thinking…

Boing Boing
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I'd feel old because I understand this, but thanks Cthulhu I'm just old enough to not be young, and young enough to not be old…=)

@Natasha_Jay After seeing it in a magazine, I kept all my .bat files in c:\belfry

Almost no one ever saw it, but it gave me a smile.

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Only the occasional hobo LOL Cats and he seems to post everything on Instagram now. Send him a post card and he'll answer though. Got a Christmas card in exchange for the picture of a deer skull out of my back yard.

@Natasha_Jay the intersection between dad jokes and retro tech is thin as a single spaghetti noodle.

I probably shouldn't be quite so mad about this but here we are

@Natasha_Jay How I've always envisioned it. Thank you. 🦇😅👌

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Fond memories of continually rewriting this file.

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