Did You Know

[Niraj]

did you know that the windows o/s does not allow you to rename a folder or create a folder called "con"

what a con!

[Geoffers]

Yeah

But just to be boring.....

CON is a device. You would be creating a console device. (Screen or keyboard)

Remember the olden days when you regularly had to "copy con" (copy from the keyboard) or copy "test.txt con" would display it on the screen.

CON is still a device and used at lower level.

I don't know - you youngies have all done within windows for you now....

[Anees]

I don't know - you youngies have all done within windows for you now....

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Ok Grandad!! :P :P

[Niraj]

Remember the olden days when you regularly had to "copy con" (copy from the keyboard) or copy "test.txt con" would display it on the screen....

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hehehe :D i dont remember those days.... hehehehe

[aido]

Ah the good old days of DOS, I remember those :)

Still spend more time in the command line than in the GUI even now, the GUI is for puffs

[Kazi]

Still you got one thing right, Microsoft is a con! Over rated, over priced, unstable poor performance unsecure software!

Rant over! :P

[aido]

But that is exactly why some of us have a job

And also why I use apple kit at home :D

[dipstick]

DOS?

Pah!

In my day we rebuilt the o/s on a PDP-8 after a crash by flipping the dip switches on the front panel to enter each BYTE. After about 200 of those without a mistake you'd entered the instructions to launch the paper tape reader that contained the rest of the o/s.

This would be about 1977-1980, when the PC hadn't quite been invented and the Concorde Landing Simulator on the Commodore Pet was the height of excitement.

[aido]

Things were so much simpler then :D

Still got my Atari 400 somewhere, loved that thing :D

[dipstick]

Ooh, with that alien space invadery type game where they came over a shiny coloured horizon? What was that called?