Tech Memories

It’s amazing how ill-developed our memories are when we were young, or perhaps we just have terrible memory capacity. My sister (Let’s call her Jib) who was working on the Soundcard from Creative for her Project Work, expressed awe in the fact that Sound Blaster came out only after I (her brother) was born. She thought that everything was already rather hi-tech by the time we (our recent cohort) were born. I told her it wasn’t, as I remember the times when my mother was using Windows 3.1 and we had the huge 5.25-inch floppy disks for storing minute bytes of stuff. After that…

Jib: I only remembered the times when we had Windows 93…
Vib: There’s no such thing as Windows 93…
Jib: Erm, oh, it’s Windows 98…
Vib: Nope, it’s Windows 95 -_____________-||

Well, this brings back lame memories about the times we had to use the DOS command prompt to kickstart safe mode whenever the computer hanged and we had this really cool game which was 3D, but we have to use the DOS command prompt to start it and soon we got tired of typing long strings of commands that we gave up playing the game altogether. By the way, for anyone who didn’t realise, DOS stands for ‘Dirty Operating System’, it was not invented by Bill Gates. It was originally an OS invented by a firm known as ‘Spyglass’, and named Q-DOS (for Quick-Dirty Operating System) and Bill Gates bought the license from them and modified it a little before renaming it as MS-DOS. Glad we got this dirt off our XPs.