“it’s now safe to turn off your computer”

That’s how old I am

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Fuck

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 "you 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.