Posts by Uncle William 5 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Aug 2024
I didn't notice when Copilot appeared but I think it was weeks ago for me. But yesterday my Pinned items in File Explorer changed to folders that I did not want pinned and my WiFi no longer connects automatically every time regardless of being told to. But eh - my Win10 Pro desktop is allowing me to post this - for the time being.
Must remember to do a system backup before I Resume the "suspended for 7 days" updates.
CD upsidedown! Might have only taken me 10s to realise the backup to floppy failed because the PC was upsidedown but as it was it was done over the phone. Turned out they'd had an office move and the desktop computer had been replaced the wrong way round.
You'd have thought the operator might have noted the model number was also upsidedown after 2 years of use.
The Osborne and dBaseII were the start of a business for me. Program and Constants file on Drive A, data on Drive B. Shortly afterwards we made it sort of work on MP/M (which has been mentioned in these responses). A bit of a dog's breakfast especially with the hardware then available. The system was for a newspaper group c1985 and was quickly re-written in RM-Cobol which on NCR's CP/Net Modus system provided proper record locking and the business took off. CP/M had Level 0 to 9 (?). Anything in Level 0 was available to all other levels but the other levels were private to eachother so we could have different routines, utilities, software in different levels.
I've still got the Osborne though it's not been fired up for year or ten.
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