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  Quote Jonathan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Nov 2008 at 9:02pm
I guess it's a good thing you don't live 2 miles north of me then, otherwise you'd have needed that fireproof safe!  (I live very near the "freeway complex" fire that just happened in California).  There is still a lot of ash and smoke in the air, and the bare hills are about to get rained on.  Should be fun.  
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  Quote Pony_God Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Nov 2008 at 10:57pm
Originally posted by mramsey

You guys made me nervous I'm backing up my files and putting them in a fire proof safe!Approve
You could get a cheap $10 thumb drive and backup the seqence files at least.
It's really just the time involved, not that it's irreplacable.
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  Quote LightChristmas Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Nov 2008 at 11:01pm
Tiger Direct has a sweet deal on 8 GIGAbyte thumb drives - $20!

Yeesh! Twenty years ago, we thought 20 MEG was huge!

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  Quote TheQueb Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 Nov 2008 at 4:33am
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Yeesh! Twenty years ago, we thought 20 MEG was huge!
 
20 years ago I moved from C64 to an ibm clone and paid about $1400 for the computer and an EXTRA $1000 per MEG of memory...  
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  Quote mramsey Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 Nov 2008 at 6:48am
I remember having a commodore 64 that was connected to my tape player as a device to save to.
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  Quote Pony_God Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 Nov 2008 at 8:28am
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20 years ago I moved from C64 to an ibm clone and paid about $1400 for the computer and an EXTRA $1000 per MEG of memory...  
 
Ah... but you only needed 1 Meg to run the entire computer, not 4 Gig like today.
Probably helped that the applications were only a few Kilobytes too.
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  Quote TheQueb Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 Nov 2008 at 10:25am
If I remember right, I had to buy a "memory manager program because DOS wouldn't recognize more than 640k
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  Quote Pony_God Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 Nov 2008 at 11:15am
HIMEM.SYS started moving stuff out of the first 640k?, but you could get (and I had) a ... um... some sort of ghost that only used 1k and moved other drives like mouse, and Trident video drivers out of low mem, so that the hi-powered games that needed all 640k could run.
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  Quote LightChristmas Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 Nov 2008 at 11:53am
OK. Lets see how much of an "old fart" you are.

What was this used for?    debug -g=c800:1

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drivparm /D:x /F:7 /I

And of course - Desqview and QEMM86


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  Quote Pony_God Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 Nov 2008 at 2:31pm
Lets see....
DEBUG was a kind of break out of the OS, go into the BIOS type thing... Kinda like a STOP-A on a SUN.
-g=c800:1... I'm guessing low-level format. I remember doing soumething like that for the old SCSI1 drives.
driveparam's easy, that sets the drive parameters so that the OS knows what it's accessing.
 
Well, I have no idea what Desqview or QEMM86 is... I remember passing parameters to EMM386.EXE.
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