![]() I can recall the early days of running classic DOS-based games from a 5.25” disk on an IBM XT sporting a monochrome monitor supported by an MDA graphics card. These initially came in sizes of 8” with up to 500KB of storage, then the 5.25” with up to 1.2MB, and later the more commonly used 3.5” with 1.44MB, also known as stiffies. Apart from the native tasks, users would insert floppy diskettes to run software and games. ![]() MS-DOS was first released in 1981 and was only officially discontinued in 2000. The greatest of these relates to running classic DOS-based games.īelieve it or not, there was a time before the Windows OS GUI, in which your only interface to the computer was the keyboard and text-based commands. Needless to say that times have changed a great deal and there are many who can look back at those early years with nostalgia. The few that owned a computer were seen as social outcasts and labelled as ‘nerds’. ![]() ![]() You would have to make use of command line instructions to run tasks and play games. For many, this was not only an expensive luxury device, it was almost unusable to the masses. In the ’80s, the Personal Computer (PC) was not as personal as one would have hoped. ![]()
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