Hello from the Midwest

My first personal computer was an Apple II, which I loved, for what it could do. From there I went to dos applications for life insurance presentations, etc. I have used Windows 3.11, 98SE & XP Pro. I am webmaster for my high school class of '59 for which I use Dreamweaver MX.
Willy

 

Jeez, I remeber the Apple ][

Used to have a lot of fun with the INIT command and Ctrl-H

Welcome to WindowsBBS Willy

 

One of the programs I used was for doing financial reports.
I also used it one time at a Chicago area Ski show using a computer skiing program for visitors to play.
But then you know some of the things it could do.

 

I'm a little younger than you Willy but the Apple ][ was one of the first computers I was trained on, the others being the Commodore PET and BBC (Not sure if that ever made it to US).

Anyway, for those that don't know INIT was like format but allowed you to define a boot program, unfortunately there was a bug in the Apple's CLI which allowed you to backspace and overtype INIT. The Idea being you prep the machine by

INIT^h^h^h^h[4 spaces]^h^h^h^h (brings the cursor back to start of line)

Then wait for some shmuck to put in his floppy and type a command...

Result, a formatted 5 1/4 inch disk.


I should point out that this was ~30 years ago and I wouldn't dream of doing anything like that now (it did emphasise the need for backups though).