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09-30-2011, 06:20 PM
| | | | So the other week, I thought of something new for hipsters to do...
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...go back to using Windows 3.1. It seems like it would be "deck" and the hipster thing to do.
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09-30-2011, 06:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Takoma Park, MD (DC) | | | hah, awesome. I can't wait to see hipsters walking around with 5.25" floppy disks. |
09-30-2011, 06:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | Amateur. New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! | PCWorld
That's how it's done, not 3.1
20 goto 10, biotch.
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09-30-2011, 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by hover  | Haha, that's awesome.  Unfortunately, the reissue has modern specs. It's kinda like a blue line SVT reissue with a solid-state MOSFET power section and a MIDI-controllable, programmable preamp. Still, that's very cool.
Also, I'm old enough now to complain about the young whipper-snappers who can't appreciate the simplistic beauty of DOS. 
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09-30-2011, 08:51 PM
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Originally Posted by LiquidMidnight Also, I'm old enough now to complain about the young whipper-snappers who can't appreciate the simplistic beauty of DOS. | For what it's worth, most young coders I know prefer VIM (or similar alternatives) to graphical text editors.
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09-30-2011, 09:10 PM
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10-01-2011, 06:23 AM
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Originally Posted by LiquidMidnight Haha, that's awesome. Unfortunately, the reissue has modern specs. | Yeah, I figured, as always with the hipsters, it was more about the irony.
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10-01-2011, 06:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | We have a spectrometer that is controlled using a Windows 3.1 system.
I have to spend a fair bit of time showing students how to use it. I still get a kick when they freak out at a floppy drive making noises . . . it also makes me sad, because I didn't think I was that old 
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10-01-2011, 07:05 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Down in the middle somewhere. | | | I remember having to install windows 3.1 it was something like 11 floppies and you always ended up having floppy 9 or so being corrupted and having to find another copy!
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10-01-2011, 07:26 AM
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Originally Posted by hover Yeah, I figured, as always with the hipsters, it was more about the irony. | I'm a bit of a hypster myself - and I honestly wish its hardware weren't updated. Also, nobody (at least no hypster) spells it with an "i" anymore, that's just too mainstream. Quote:
Originally Posted by carlos840 I remember having to install windows 3.1 it was something like 11 floppies and you always ended up having floppy 9 or so being corrupted and having to find another copy!
It was messy! | Remember this video? Don't Copy That Floppy (Official Video - Digitally Remastered) - YouTube
man, I still have about 30 floppy disks in my room, I don't even have a pc with a drive for them anymore.
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10-01-2011, 07:35 AM
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10-01-2011, 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk We have a spectrometer that is controlled using a Windows 3.1 system.
I have to spend a fair bit of time showing students how to use it. I still get a kick when they freak out at a floppy drive making noises . . . it also makes me sad, because I didn't think I was that old | Just buy a new spectrometer. |
10-01-2011, 08:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | Heck, it works 
More a problem of funding, it isn't officially part of the teaching labs, the academic who used it left many (many) years ago. So it's a working relic, nobody has actually taken responsibility for it even though nobody wants to get rid of it, and because it doesn't fall under any specific budget, there is no money to replace it!
(and it isn't one that could be replaced with the likes of those funky wee Oceans Optics USB ones sadly)
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